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
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel are recognized for discoveries involving light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
/
Article
A structure-function mismatch limits the current field of printing tissue that transports blood.
/
Article
Complex behaviors can be modeled and predicted using low-dimensional chaotic modeling.
/
Article
Bumps and craters on a sea/riverbed can generate localized patterns in ice-covered water.
/
Article
After collecting experimental data from a replica of the renowned bell, researchers used a technique called modal analysis to model its acoustic properties.
/
Article
At the end of the turbulent 1960s, the postwar funding boom in US physics came to a crashing halt. The lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s physicists.
/
Article
Interviews with 22 successful early-career physical scientists and engineers reveal that networking has been one of the most critical ways to nurture their careers.
/
Article
/
Article
Measurements of the reactivity of volatile organic compounds emitted by urban trees show that they contribute more to ground-level ozone than do other, human-produced forms of emissions.