The Role Of Evolution In A Helping Hand
It’s something you see every day. Around the holiday season, you’ll certainly see more of it. Why are people nice to each other? Why do…
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Changing The Boron Environment – A Powerful Tool To Tune The Reactivity
Shortly after its discovery in 1942, sodium borohydride (NaBH4) has rapidly become recognized as an extremely convenient reductant 1-3. The borohydrides nowadays are considered as…
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Water Transport Within A Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell: Why It Is So Important And How It Can Be Modeled
Scientists typically refer to the rise in global average temperature and the associated effects on Earth’s climate with the term “climate change.” Lately, it is…
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Alternative Methods To Disperse And Treat Oil Spills
Oil spills at sea continue to pose a major threat to the marine ecosystem. Our joint University of Greifswald and Louisiana State University research team…
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Treefrogs Use Quantity Discrimination Abilities To Choose Among Microhabitats
Counting, estimating sizes, and performing other tasks that require quantitative abilities are an important part of our daily life and have been long believed to be…
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Neglected Compounds: PNO Type Ligands For Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions
Everyone has noticed the difference between a pair of gloves and a pair of socks. A sock, like its partner, can be worn on either…
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Social Security: Do Specific Social Relationships Make Animals Safer?
Social animals may share resources with others, be exposed to pathogens from sick group mates, and may have to allocate time to working out dominance…
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Hilltopping Behavior In Tiger Moths
Naturalists have long marveled at the beauty of butterflies fluttering about verdant fields, blossoming gardens, and urban green spaces. Watching a brightly-colored butterfly alight on…
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Putting A Flock To Flight
A well-known paper in literature (Roberts, 1997, Animal Behaviour, 54:1517-1522) asks the important question: “How many birds does it take to put a flock to…
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Citrus War: The Fight Against Lemon Fungi Using Sustainable Biological Weapons
Argentina is the world’s leading lemon producer and industrialist and the second-largest exporter of this fruit. More than 70% of the industry’s production is destined…
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Chemical-Biology Space Exploration… To Go Where No Drug Has Gone Before!
The introduction of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy begins like this: “Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how…
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