Can Darwinâs Lab Survive Success?
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A sizable growth in tourism has had a sizable effect on the fragile ecosystem of the GalÃ¡pagos Islands, the globeâs first World Heritage Site.
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Increased survival sounds like great news. But it may not mean what you think.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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NASA builds its spacecraft in some of the tidiest rooms on Earth, but a few microbial stowaways always manage to survive and sneak a ride into space.
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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By Lynda V. Mapes, Seattle Times  Jun. 14--Five years after Springer's rescue, the orphaned orca's relocation to her pod in the wild appears to be an unqualified success.
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In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of 'creation science' is invading America's classrooms. By Evan Ratliff from Wired magazine.
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The famed explorers' leadership methods can also lead to investing success.
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A biologist investigates claims that animals flourished in the radiated 40-mile-diameter âexclusion zone.â
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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Evolution has gotten faster, and scientists think they know why: Microbes are swapping DNA from one species to another, giving the Darwinian process an added boost.
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New Zealand scientists say they've determined complex microbial communities can become more stable as their relationship evolves.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Croatian scientists have worked out how a radiation-resistant bacterium that can exist in extreme conditions repairs damage to itself, a discovery which could provide clues about diseases such as cancer.
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Ancient bacteria are able to survive nearly half a million years in harsh, frozen conditions, researchers said on Monday in a study that adds to arguments that permafrost environments on Mars could harbor life.
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By ELEVEN, Beck  Lisa Matisoo-Smith, principal investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, was in Christchurch this week for the Evolution 2007 conference. She explains how humans might make it to the next millennium.
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They produce as much organic carbon as all the rainforests on Earth, but they&#39;re not plants. They live in hard shells and can survive for months in the dark, but they&#39;re not animals.