September 2007

dark matter
Features

Dark Matter

Most of the matter in the universe is neither bound up in stars or planets nor dispersed in clouds of "ordinary" particles. But what is it made of?

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Nature.net

That Gnawing Feeling

An Internet guide to the troublesome termite

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Samplings

Flip-Flop Flap

Bats and birds differ in the aerodynamics of low-speed flight.

Poor Bird, Rich Bird
Samplings

Poor Bird, Rich Bird

Biodiversity declines as income inequality rises.

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Samplings

Chile con Pollo

How did the chicken cross the sea? Polynesians brought them to S. America before 1492.

Krauss
Samplings

A Lonely Future

Astronomers of the distant future won’t be able to deduce the nature of the universe.

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Samplings

Deaths, Foretold

Did ancient European hunter-gatherers practice ritual sacrifice?

melanin
Samplings

Radiation: It's What's For Dinner

Fungi with melanin use radioactivity as an energy source.

pollution
Samplings

Green for the Green

The European Union’s emissions trading scheme curbs greenhouse gas.

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Samplings

Heat Waves

Warming oceans’ waves are speeding up, forecasting big changes in the weather.

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Samplings

No Place to Hide

Tropical amphibians and reptiles are in decline: is climate change to blame?

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Recent Interview

Xiaoming Wang

Hear author Xiaoming Wang interviewed by Vittorio Maestro, Editor in Chief of Natural History. (MP3, 17 minutes)