Meet a colorful but color-blind spider
January 13, 2022
An international team of researchers finds that a jumping spider with vivid color on its face and legs can't see it.
January 13, 2022
An international team of researchers finds that a jumping spider with vivid color on its face and legs can't see it.
October 28, 2021
University of Cincinnati behavioral ecologist Annemarie van der Marel found that Barbary ground squirrels keep watch for predators together as a survival strategy.
May 4, 2022
Biologists at the University of Cincinnati are studying low-cost ways to improve water quality and wildlife habitat in Greater Cincinnati’s creeks. UC biologists Stephen Matter and Michael Booth are examining whether water quality and wildlife habitat can be improved simply by adding logs and branches in select parts of the upper Cooper Creek. The addition of fallen timber could help slow periodic floodwaters, create more standing pools for fish during droughts and add nutrients for plants and fungus that support other aquatic life, researchers said.
May 23, 2022
The UC creators of Biology Meets Engineering are wrapping up a three-year National Science Foundation grant to develop and demonstrate a new curriculum drawing from both fields in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences and its College of Engineering and Applied Science. UC students take the class for course credit while faculty will offer a three-week course in June to introduce the concept to high school students.
July 29, 2022
Brooke Bartholomew had a hunch something good was about to happen when she saw people carrying balloons in the University of Cincinnati’s black and red colors walk into her high school classroom.
June 29, 2022
UC Alumni Sylvana Ross is saving bees and headed to Cornell University under fellowship where she will start her PhD program in entomology. She is a co-founder of the Queen City Pollinators Project.
June 1, 2022
Researchers with the University of Cincinnati found that mosquitoes whose slumber is disrupted are more interested in catching up on their sleep than looking for food the next day. The research demonstrates how vital this biological function is even among insects.
March 11, 2022
Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati say these incredible fish have an equally remarkable physiology that helps them cope with a low-oxygen environment that would kill other species.
May 23, 2022
Biologists at the University of Cincinnati say nighttime light pollution can interfere with the remarkable navigational abilities of monarchs, which travel as far as Canada to Mexico and back during their multigenerational migration.