2016

December
- Climate-Change-Conference
  
  December 15, 2016
  A group of 10 students and professors went to Morocco in November for the annual gathering of government delegates and climate researchers. They came back refocused and reinvigorated.
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October
- A New ‘King’ — New, Gigantic, Ancient Armored Fish Discovered
  
  October 11, 2016
  In the Arctic, a team that included scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University found fossils of a giant new species of extinct armored fish that they named Bothriolepis rex — the new king of Bothriolepis.
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September
- ‘Nursery’ Discovered in Belgium Provides Insight into Prehistoric Fish Life
  
  September 02, 2016
  The discovery of a group of young, prehistoric fish fossils provides some insights into the extinct creatures’ lives — and how fish today might be similar to them.
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June
- Mountaineering Ants Use Body Heat to Warm Nests
  
  June 29, 2016
  Underground army ants can keep their nests — called bivouacs — warm with their body heat; this social warming may enable fragile offspring to survive in chilly mountain forests , according to Drexel University researchers.
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- Ladykiller: Artificial Sweetener Proves Deadly for Female Flies
  
  June 27, 2016
  In testing multiple artificial sweeteners, a Drexel University research team found that one was particularly deadly for female fruit flies — and left males relatively untouched.
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- Tiny Algae Ideal for Sniffing Out Nutrient Pollution in Water
  
  June 24, 2016
  Tiny algae, called diatoms, living in water could be key to providing a definitive and clear measure of whether streams, rivers and lakes have damaging levels of nutrients in them.
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- Pandas Don’t Like It Hot: Temperature, Not Food is Biggest Concern for Conservation
  
  June 06, 2016
  China’s bamboo supply is more than enough to support giant pandas after it was discovered that they have bigger appetites than originally believed, but climate change could destroy their plentiful food source anyway.
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April
- Celebrate the Great Outdoors with the Drexel Naturalists’ Association
  
  April 11, 2016
  Now that spring has sprung, students can better appreciate nature in and outside of the city with the Drexel Naturalists’ Association.
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March
- Un-Muddying Waters: Drexel Researchers Studying Climate Change in Mongolian, U.S. Rivers
  
  March 29, 2016
  As a part of a National Science Foundation macroecology study spanning two continents, a team of researchers from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will compare river systems in grassland areas of Asia and North America to see how they function and how human activity, including the effects of climate change alters that.
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- Drexel Talks Climate Change
  
  March 24, 2016
  Drexel’s participation in the annual United Nations Conference on Climate Change in December empowered eight Drexel faculty, staff and students. Each came away with a different, rewarding experience that they’ll share at a public event next month.
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- Surface-Going Cave Crickets Actually More Isolated Than Cave-Dwelling Cousins
  
  March 16, 2016
  Although other studies on cave-dwelling creatures have found that animals that spend all of their lives in the dark of caves are more likely to be genetically isolated, a recent study on two groups of crickets found the opposite.
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- Seeing the Light: Army Ants Evolve to Regain Sight and More in Return to Surface’s Complex Environment
  
  March 09, 2016
  A study of army ants revealed that some species increased their brain size, including visual brain regions, after evolving above-ground behavior. Their ancestors had lived mainly underground for nearly 60 million years. Such increases in brain capacity are a rarely-studied evolutionary phenomenon.
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- Academy of Natural Sciences Researcher Proves Mongolian Herders Right in Climate Research
  
  March 07, 2016
  When it comes to climate change, serious issues can sometimes hide behind walls of data. In talking to nomadic herders in Mongolia, the Academy of Natural Sciences’ Clyde Goulden was able to confirm their feelings that they were experiencing a significant increase in short, intense rainstorms that threaten the herders’ way of life.
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