Infographic created by van Zinnicq Bergmann. As it turns out, poop can tell you a lot about a shark's diet. Traditional methods to determine the diet of a shark aren't very pleasant. With a living shark, its stomach can be partially pulled out through its mouth for a quick visual examination—which is mostly done...
The interior of a termite nest shows complex, interconnecting floors and ramps. Credit: Guy Theraulaz/Harvard SEAS Following a series of studies on termite mound physiology and morphogenesis over the past decade, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have now developed a mathematical model to help explain how...