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Bacteria learn new trick

By Stephen Ornes / October 12, 2012

A decades-long experiment growing E. coli bacteria showed the microbes evolved the ability to eat a new food. Flasks of the germs turned cloudy when the bacteria ate citrate. Credit: Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela

Scientists show evolution in action in decades-long E. coli study

Posted in Microbes, Fungi & Algae | Tagged Adaptation, bacteria, biology, Bruce Levin, citric acid, E. coli, Emory University, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolve, genes, germs, getinvolved, Massey University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Michigan State University, mutate, mutations, Paul Rainey, Richard Lenski, Zachary Blount

Bird malaria moves north

By Stephen Ornes / October 10, 2012

Black-capped chickadees, like the one shown here, stay in Fairbanks, Alaska, year-round. Scientists report that some of the birds have been found with avian malaria, suggesting that the germ that causes the disease has established itself in the far North. Credit: Mdf/wikipedia

Germs that cause a so-called tropical disease make themselves at home in frosty Alaska

Posted in Animals | Tagged Adaptation, avian malaria, birds, blood, climate change, disease, disease ecology, ecology, epidemiology, evolution, getinvolved, global warming, malaria, microbes, microbiology, mosquito, parasite, protozoa, Ravinder Sehgal, Robert Fleischer, San Francisco State University, Smithsonian Institution, tropical disease

Like poison for phosphorus

By Stephen Ornes / December 13, 2010

Scientists report finding bacterium that can live off arsenic

Posted in Chemistry | Tagged Adaptation, arsenic, bacteria, bacterium, Chemosynthesis, energetics, extreme environments, forensic science, microbe, organic chemistry, organic molecules, phosphorus, toxicology, toxicology/drugs

A global warming flap

By Stephen Ornes / January 19, 2010

Differences in butterfly and moth breeding patterns are linked to a changing climate

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged Adaptation, climate change, evolution

Fear Matters

By Jennifer Cutraro / October 22, 2007

Halloween can scare kids and make them act strange. But animals and ecosystems respond to fear every day of the year.

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged Adaptation, animal behavior, evolution

To Catch a Dragonfly

By Emily Sohn / December 4, 2006

Dragonflies are giving researchers new ways to think about relationships among animals.

Posted in Environment & Pollution | Tagged Adaptation, animal behavior, evolution