For many of us, December brings reindeer to mind as the mythical steeds who draw Santa Claus’ archetypal sledge but most people know little more about these fascinating animals. Happily we have many entertaining videos and guides exploring the secret…
Tag: biology
Introducing… BIOSIS Previews
Finally in this week’s tour of popular online resources for finding academic journal articles that go beyond the Discovery Service, we take a look at the world’s most comprehensive reference database for life science research: BIOSIS Previews. Part of the Web…
Introducing… Bioline international
Bioline International is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries with the goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap and improve the understanding of tropical medicine, infectious diseases,…
ECOTOX database
If you are looking into the impact of pollution and toxic chemicals released into the environment you should take a look at ECOTOX. A fantastic resource locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife, ECOTOX is maintained by…
Introducing… Biomed Central
First up in our showcase of Biological Science databases this week is Biomed Central. The largest open access publisher in the world, BioMed Central publishes over 290 peer-reviewed open access journals across the fields of biology, chemistry, clinical medicine and…
Scientist of the week: Carl von Linné
How biological species got their name Have you ever wondered how biological species got their names? How biologists can claim to know which of the many species of earthworm or which of the millions of bacteria they are actually looking…
Second seagull nest discovered!
As some of you might have already concluded from the sounds of chicks calling for food from two separate locations on our roof that we have had two pairs of breeding gulls raising broods on our Sedum roof this year, although we…
Not all urban gulls are after your chips
According to a recent study, urban gulls in St Ives were found to be foraging for food anywhere from farmland to the deep sea rather than loitering with intent outside chip shops and ice cream parlours waiting for tasty tidbits to…
Tiny sea bird takes its tern in the spotlight
The Arctic tern, a tiny sea bird, has made the longest known annual migration, flying from the Farne Islands in Northumberland to the Weddell Sea in Antarctica and back, covering an astonishing distance of over 96,000 km (59,650 miles) each year. The…
Driverless car design is learning from dung beetles
Driverless vehicles could benefit from a study in Sweden that discovered how dung beetles navigate by remembering a snapshots of the starlit sky they observe from atop their balls of dung. Click here to discover how. Photo by GmanViz
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