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...become truly useful: their weight, range, and how long their power source lasts. We’re aiming to reduce the transmitter weight by harvesting the energy the bee generates while flying. This will allow us to do away with the battery, which is normally the heaviest component. The final bee backpack will weigh less than 50 milligrams (about two grains of rice) and will be...

...become alert and flee. The experiment was conducted under artificial noise and repeated during quiet control periods - building upon our previous research. Although we expected that the prairie dogs would take longer to respond when distracted by noise, we were surprised by our findings. Unlike the fish and the crabs, in the presence of noise, prairie dogs reacted earlier...

...become more fragmented. “All over, but particularly at higher latitudes, species are rapidly shifting around the landscape,” says Hope. “The ranges of many species are changing as environmental conditions change, and the result is a sudden increase in overlap in these communities.” When environmental conditions change, species may adapt to the new conditions,...