“In honor of Halloween, we're bringing you a Short Wave (The Science podcast from NPR) ghost story — featuring an animal that has long been the stuff of conservationist legend: the American red wolf.
This small, cinnamon-colored canid roamed free across the American Southeast, preying on deer and small mammals and…
Studying Darwin’s finches has been the life’s work of the renowned British evolutionary biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant. For several months every year for 40 years, the husband-and-wife team visited the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific to meticulously track the fate of thousands of finches on two small islands there. The Grants…
Emma Zajdela, an Intelligence Community postdoctoral research fellow in the Levin and Oppenheimer Labs, HMEI, and C-PREE at Princeton University, served as a faculty for the first Complexity Global School (CGS) organized by the Santa Fe Institute in December 2023. The 2024…
The Lopez-Loreta Foundation has just awarded a 1-million-euro Prize to HMEI/EEB postdoctoral researcher Guillaume Falmagne, to fund for 5 years his project CORESO/COLNET: "COoperation in Large-scale NETworks: experimenting optimal structures". The project will set forth drivers of cooperation at large scales, through the design and use of a…
A festschrift in honor of Daniel I. Rubenstein’s 43 years of service in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was held on October 2-3, 2023 at Princeton University. EEB’s chair Jonathan Levine introduced the event, highlighting Dan’s career at Princeton and the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, his scholarly work on decision…
For one week in early November, bird-themed art adorned the walls of the CoLab gallery space in Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts as part of the first-ever BirDiversity art exhibit. Almost 90 pieces—including photographs, paintings, sketches, embroidery, and videos—greeted an estimated 250 visitors on the exhibit’s opening night on…
"At the front lines of this rapid change are the scientists, filmmakers and local communities recording the animals’ stories. We follow heart-warming tales of resilience that redefine our understanding of evolution, and hint at how nature can show us a path towards a sustainable future for Planet Earth.
The series is narrated by…
Elizabeth Horn fondly recalls summers spent at her family land nestled in the rolling hills of Whitehall, New York. Exploring the property’s forests, cliffs, and wetlands, hiking up to the top of Hatch Hill, watching the sun set behind the low mountains rising above Lake Champlain’s South Bay—these…
Don't miss "HUMAN FOOTPRINT," hosted by Shane Campbell-Staton.
In this captivating series blending science and travel, viewers are taken on a journey from cutting-edge laboratories to bustling street markets, from farms to renowned restaurants, and from ancient forests to the hidden corners of New York. The aim is to explore how…
Beyond pollinating flowers and crops, bees are also helping researchers decode the genes behind social behaviors.
Princeton biologist Sarah Kocher studies these genes in sweat bees — which, unlike their hive…