Inside Science
/
Article

How The Pronghorn Crossed The Road

AUG 22, 2018
Officials in Wyoming are building bridges in the hopes of restoring the migratory path of the pronghorn.
How The Pronghorn Crossed The Road

Video By: Annie Roth

Twice a year, thousands of pronghorn antelope make 170-mile-long migrations across Wyoming’s rugged landscape. But making these migrations means running a gauntlet of country roads and busy highways. There was a time when hundreds of migrating pronghorn died crossing roads each year, but that number has plummeted thanks to an ambitious project by Wyoming Department of Transportation.

More Science News
/
Article
Scalable chemical vapor deposition approach enables electronic thermal management applications.
/
Article
Processing diamond surfaces with femtosecond lasers yields a trade-off between hydrophilicity and low defect rate.
/
Article
Coating nanoparticles derived from a ginger-family plant in stem cell membranes enables targeted atherosclerosis treatment.
/
Article
Novel insight into the “Sareh twist” suggests that this mechanism underlying origami tessellations could become a key element in the design of origami-inspired structures for science and engineering applications.
/
Article
The precision measurement and quantum communities are upset about the secretiveness of the move and its potential damage to US science.
/
Article
/
Article
In noisy biological environments, the fluorescent protein can pinpoint subcellular structures and detect magnetic field changes.
/
Article
Two cylinders rotating in a fluid can mimic the behavior of gears and of a belt-and-pulley system.