Biogenic reefs are naturally occurring structures formed by the collaborative activity of living organisms. These assemblages – often constructed by invertebrates such as polychaete worms – establish ...

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An international team of scientists, led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s S. Kathleen Lyons, is providing a new framework — Earth system engineering — for examining how organisms, including ...

Ecological engineering combines the fields of ecology, natural sciences, civil infrastructure systems, and environmental engineering to predict, develop, and restore ecosystems with a focus on ...

Aside from humans, perhaps no other species can modify its surroundings for its own purposes as much as beaver. Throughout much of North America, these busy critters take down trees and dam streams to ...

The two years Princeton senior Joe Kawalec spent studying the natural camouflage of the ubiquitous downy woodpecker oddly enough began and ended the same way — tracing the outlines of birds. In ...

An engineering marvel is being constructed right now in a creek in Southwest Virginia. It begins when a male bluehead chub minnow picks up a small piece of gravel in his mouth and drops it on the ...

Building a quantum future means thinking like a systems engineer — considering all potential parts of the field and the ecosystem and integrating them efficiently. That’s what the chief quantum ...

As fearsome apex predators at the top of the food chain, wolves linger in the cultural imagination as a symbol of true, dangerous wilderness. But aside from playing on our imagination, scientists have ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...