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Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean...
The Guardian· 2 days agoThe coastline of Tabasco, a waterlogged and oil-rich state on the Gulf of Mexico, is a tangle of mangroves and pipelines belonging to Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned hydrocarbons ...
Hamburg’s wartime bunker is reinvented as an unlikely green oasis
The Guardian· 2 days agoConstructed on the orders of Adolf Hitler, after the air raids on Berlin in 1940, it was one of...
Protection by Mimicry–A Problem in Mathematical Zoology - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoUNDER the above heading in the Japan Weekly Mail of February 3, 1883, we drew attention to what appeared to us an error made by Mr. Alfred R. Wallace in a letter to NATURE regarding the protection ...
Christian Conrad Sprengel - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoSPEAKING of Christian Conrad Sprengel's discoveries, Dr. H. A. Hagen says (NATURE, vol. xxix. From the complete want of papers relating to the facts observed, and the theories proposed by Sprengel ...
Edouard René Claparède - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoAT the early age of thirty-nine, one of the most skilful, laborious, and honoured of European zoologists has been lost to Science in the person of Edouard Claparède. Having taken up his residence ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoE. Dobson exhibited a remarkable parasitic worm from the intestine of Megaderma frons, from the Gold Coast. It appears allied to Pterygodermatites plagiostoma, Wedl, from the Long-eared Hedgehog ...
The Present State of Physiological Research - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoHow far is it true that physiologists must revert to the point of view of comparative physiology, or the physiology of the endless variety of lower and simpler forms of life which was that which ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoJ. N. Fitch, J. S. Gamble, F. S. Piggott, A. B. Stewart, and Prof. Macoun were elected Fellows.—Mr. Thiselton Dyer exhibited portions of the “Nam-mu” tree, which grows in Yunnan, 25°–26° N. ...
Dr. Alex Müller - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoDr. Alex Müller, who died on July 2, at the age of fifty-eight, received his early training in physics and mathematics in Zurich, where he took his doctorate in 1915 by a ...
Theodor Schwann - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoThe most important fact in the history of his mental development, is that he came under the influence of the greatest teacher and worker in biological science whom Germany rich in such men, ...