ecology

"No" is one of the first words human children learn in life — and it usually becomes our favorite the instant we figure out that it gets a rise out of our parents. We're contrarians from birth, it seems. But where does this tendency come…

The green movement has been growing in popularity ever since we started to realise the unbelievable amount of damage human society has been causing to our environment. Amidst all the talk of recycling paper and bringing your own bag to the…

In order to sell to the largest audience, companies around the world analyze consumer trends and design marketing tactics to appeal to what consumers care about on any given week. Supply and demand rules company business practices, and when…

Two giant stars are in the process of forming one supermassive star About 13,000 light years from where you are currently sitting, you can find the Giraffe constellation. For years, one of the brightest objects there was believed…

On September 30th the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) released a landmark report on the health of our planet, which presents many harsh realities about the impact the ballooning pressures our species has been putting on the Earth’s…

When a snake suddenly decides to bolt under the mower as you're cutting the grass the least it could do is have the common courtesy to be chopped into a thousand tiny pieces. Not so yesterday. This particular snake comes out the other side…

Ridiculous. Amusing. Laughable. These are the first words that came to mind when I saw this image of the sea monster who resembled a monk from 1642. I assumed it to be a Renaissance fantasy imagined by a sailor who had one too many…

I can remember when I was just a whipper-snapper, my Mam would have her book of garden birds and we would spend time staring out into the back garden pointing out the several different species that resided in our humble hedges and trees. I…

I've been meaning to write some articles for HeadStuff for a while now but it seems that I just kept getting bogged down in writing as part of my PhD research. However, with the publication of my first paper from my research, I figure this…

Parasitic Cuckoos Protect “step-siblings”: their stink repels predators You might have heard that certain species of cuckoo are “nest parasites”. One such species is the great spotted cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) that lays its…