Voice of the Wild might be heading to your local public radio station. As a result, regular episodes will sound a little different. A fiery blaze of color and sound. Do you want to learn more bird ...

Funnel-weaving spiders (Agelenopsis pennsylvanica) build their webs differently depending on how much noise they’ve previously been exposed to. These arachnids use vibrations to sense their ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - In his final year of Native Youth Olympics competition, Anatoly Fomin made sure his name would stick around awhile. The senior now holds a place in the record books, leaving ...

Turn your backyard into a secluded hideaway. Want to add height and dense evergreen foliage to your yard, and don't want to wait? Leyland cypress adds 3 to 5 feet of height annually until it reaches a ...

Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica), or oak sedge, can be used as a lawn alternative or to create your own glade. It can handle wet soils and shade, and in drier, shady areas, it only needs to ...

Despite its common name, sweetfern isn’t. A fern, that is. It is a shrub, and is related to another powerfully fragrant local plant, northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica); both belong to the ...

This distinction makes funnel-weaving spiders, also known as Agelenopsis pennsylvanica, an ideal test group. They rely predominantly on vibratory signals for vital information. Their webs connect to ...

The Bebb Herbarium is a member of the Texas-Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH) which has consolidated their plant collections into a online database. Developing a comprehensive resource ...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common endocrine disease resulting from interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Type II DM (T2DM) accounts for approximately 90% of all DM ...