Moths are able to enjoy a pollinator’s buffet of flowers — in spite of being among the insect world’s picky eaters — because of two distinct “channels” in their brains, scientists at the University of Washington and University of Arizona have discovered. Read more about these research findings here.
Read more »Wow - sea-slug colors! - National Geographic
Need to add a little wow-factor to your day? Check out these colorful – but toxic – sea-slugs!
Read more »Future grim for 'biggest and most magnificent' trees - phys.org
Across the world, big old trees face a dire future globally from agriculture, logging, habitat fragmentation, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warn leading scientists in an article published this week in Science magazine. Jerry Franklin – School of Environmental and Forest Sciences – is a co-author. Read more here.
Read more »Listen: Every (Other) Breath You Take - KUOW
Ginger Armbrust – Professor and Director of UW Oceanography, and recipient of a multimillion dollar research award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – talks about her research and what this new research money will do. Check it out!
Read more »Engineering Projects Will Transform Seattle, All Along the Waterfront - NY Times
This city’s urban shoreline on Puget Sound was never built with photo-snapping tourists in mind, or technology entrepreneurs jogging in the rain. In decades past, stretching back to the big-timber-and-fish era of the 1800s, the waterfront was a place of gaff hooks, warehouses and stink. But as brawny old Seattle faded, the hard parts of its industrial past — a shadow-casting highway viaduct, a crumbling sea wall — remained behind like bleached fossils even as the modern gloss of restaurants, hotels and apartment towers moved in.
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