Search Results for: Rabbits

Animals

A rare rabbit plays an important ecological role by spreading seeds

Rabbits aren’t thought of as seed dispersers, but the Amami rabbit of Japan has now been recorded munching on a plant’s seeds and pooping them out.

Materials Science

Want a ‘Shrinky Dinks’ approach to nano-sized devices? Try hydrogels

Patterning hydrogels with a laser and then shrinking them down with chemicals offers a way to make nanoscopic structures out of many materials.

Health & Medicine

Louis Pasteur’s devotion to truth transformed what we know about health and disease

Two centuries after his birth, Louis Pasteur's work on pasteurization, germ theory and vaccines is as relevant as ever.

Animals

An Arctic hare traveled at least 388 kilometers in a record-breaking journey

An Arctic hare’s dash across northern Canada, the longest seen among hares and their relatives, is changing how scientists think about tundra ecology.

Animals

A gene defect may make rabbits do handstands instead of hop

Mutations in a gene typically found throughout the nervous system rob rabbits of their ability to hop. Instead, the animals walk on their front paws.

Health & Medicine

The first known monkeypox infection in a pet dog hints at spillover risk

A person passed monkeypox to a dog. Other animals might be next, allowing the virus to set up shop outside of Africa for the first time.

Archaeology

New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago

Ancient rabbit bones from a Mexican rock-shelter point to humans arriving on the continent as much as 10,000 years earlier than often assumed.

Microbes

Are viruses alive, not alive or something in between? And why does it matter?

The way we talk about viruses can shift scientific research and our understanding of evolution.

Earth

This pictogram is one of the oldest known accounts of earthquakes in the Americas

The Telleriano-Remensis, a famous codex written by a pre-Hispanic civilization, describes 12 quakes that rocked the Americas from 1460 to 1542.

Health & Medicine

Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions

Over the last 100 years, research has shed light on where we come from — how a single fertilized egg manages to develop into an organism that is unique, complex and most decidedly human — and technology has helped spur the process.