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SICB Awarded Funding for Major Cultural Change Initiative

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation BIO-LEAPS (Leading Culture Change through Professional Societies of Biology) Program.
5-Jan-2024 8:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Mutant Chernobyl wolves evolve anti-cancer abilities 35 years after nuclear disaster

Gray wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have altered immune responses and evolved anticancer mutations in response to chronic radiation exposure for the past 35 years
5-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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A Tale of Two Sparrows: Not Everyone Likes New Things

Ecological and environmental factors are known to affect invasion success. Now, scientists have found that “braver” birds are better at invading new environments.
4-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Developing Frankenfrogs hold clues to the secrets of body plan formation

Scientists create ‘frogolotls’ - chimeric amphibians using surgical transplants - to see how competing cellular instructions create a unified organism
3-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Feed or fight? How a honey bee hive’s culture influences their choice

Graduate student Rebecca Westwick researches how the environment of honey bee larvae influences their adult behavior. By focusing on aggression, she finds that whether bees prioritize hive protection over care of their young depends on their...
3-Jan-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

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The Marvel-ous world of science

The classroom is constantly evolving, from chalkboards to powerpoint slides to interactive polling using clickers. But what if science were a story and we could follow along as an ant messes things up for a colony (hint: Pixar’s A Bug’s Life) or...
30-Dec-2022 6:45 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Scientists Study How Dragonflies Catch Prey in Midair

Researchers enticed dragonflies to chase a small bead as it hurtled through the air, to examine how these insects capture objects that fly in erratic and unpredictable ways.
30-Dec-2022 6:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Pollution-fighting superpowers of a common roadside weed

When horseweed is grown in contaminated soil, it extracts and accumulates heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc. These fast-growing plants could help to detoxify even highly polluted environments.
30-Dec-2022 6:35 PM EST Add to Favorites


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