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The peppered moth is so good at blending in with the background that researchers knew little about its behavior in the wild for decades. Can you spot the light-colored typica moth against the lichen filled tree bark?Michael Majerus

Spot the Moth

By Cristina Luiggi | May 1, 2012

It’s a well-known story: The peppered moth’s ancestral typica phenotype is white with dark speckles. In the decades following the…

A tattoed Plougshare tortoise released into the Madagascar wildernessDurrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Telltale Tortoises

By Jef Akst | April 1, 2012

Researchers are permanently marking endangered reptiles in Madagascar to keep the animals from entering the illegal wildlife trade. Read the…

The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal tops this year's list of best international institutions for postdocs.THE CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION

Best Places for Postdocs, 2012

By Sabrina Richards | March 29, 2012

Postdocs at this year’s top-ranked institutions get to tackle human health and disease from every angle. Scientists at the Donald…

A male lion yawns while guarding his kill. This lion fastidiously chased away all vultures but didn't seemed to mind BeetleCam.burrard-lucas.com

BeetleCam, Take Two

By Cristina Luiggi | March 15, 2012

The BeetleCam is back! And this time, it’s lion proof. The new, improved, and heavily armored version of the remote…

Coral eggs are often pink in color, forming pink slicks across the top of the ocean’s surface during mass spawning events.Heyward and Negri, Australian Institute of Marine Science

Coral Clones

By Hannah Waters | March 1, 2012

Coral embryos drifting in rough ocean waves are essentially naked, with no protective membrane to keep them from breaking apart…

Suckling’s and Sagar’s experimental setup with bees restrained and ready for testing Robert Lamberts NZPFR

A Whiff of TB

By Edyta Zielinska | March 1, 2012

Chemical ecologist Max Suckling at the Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd. and summer student Rachael Sagar use Pavlovian…

Scanning electron micrograph of an unidentified insect resting on the distal antennal segments of a dead dragonfly.CDC

Electron Microscopy Through the Ages

By Cristina Luiggi | March 1, 2012

Invented in the early 1930s, electron microscopy revolutionized the fields of materials science and ushered in the new field of…

All images courtesy of Macoto Murayama and Frantic Gallery

From Architecture to Art

By Jef Akst | February 16, 2012

Architecture-student-turned-artist Macoto Murayama applies the computer graphics programs and techniques he learned while studying architecture at Miyagi University of Education…

The Millennium Coral Reef Mapping project created the first ever map of coral reefs around the world using more than 1,000 coastal images obtained from the Landsat 7 satellite, such as this coral reef system in Los Roques, Venezuela. NASA/USGS

The View From Above

By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012

Life scientists from a wide range of fields—from ecology and epidemiology to anthropology, marine microbiology, and animal behavior—are increasingly turning…

Cyanotype of Fucus ceranoides from Anna Atkins' Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Part II New York Public Library

Cyan Wonders

By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012

In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype…