biology

UNIVERSITY PARK — A team comprising faculty from five departments in the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Biology in the Eberly ...

One thing that keeps me busy in the wintertime is managing trail camera data. Do not delete SD cards until you collect all the information you can fro...

Women love shoes. Over the years there have been countless jokes about this and I‘ve seen large closets specially designed for, and filled, with styli...

ST. MARYS — An Elk County man with a growing fascination for mushrooms is sharing that passion with the community through his new mushroom farm, Homet...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What does it mean that scientists found 240,000 million nanoparticles of plastic in a typical bottle of water? The number is big and ...

OTTERS: Did you know river otters make their home in the Pennsylvania Wilds? According to the Visit PA Go blog, the best place to see them is along th...

Kane Area High School alumnus, and current conservation education coordinator for the Keystone Elk Country Alliance (KECA), Ben Porkolab will speak at...

The Era recently shared a story regarding citizen science and the ways in which regular people can contribute to our collective knowledge. These types...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Country star and “American Idol” winner Scott McCreery is coming to the Seneca Allegany Event Center to deliver a knock-out night of...

All game animals that live in climates that experience a large amount of winter weather undergo a lot of stress during the winter months. One animal t...

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Seneca Resources Co. LLC (Seneca), the exploration and production segment of National Fuel Gas Co. (NYSE: NFG) (National Fuel), ...

HOBBIES : Thinking about any new hobbies for 2024? The website ModestFish.com prepared a survey on state residents’ top hobbies for the year ahead. Th...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking for the public’s help finding turkey flocks to trap for ongoing turkey projects. Beginning nex...

The white-tailed buck is the most pursued game animal in North America. Although just about all deer hunters love to hunt for venison, there’s somethi...

You’ve heard of an armchair quarterback, but how about a citizen scientist? In the connected world we live in, the citizen scientist is becoming ever ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Honey yields in the U.S. have been declining since the 1990s, with honey producers and scientists unsure why, but a new study by Pen...

PHILADELPHIA — This winter, in addition to the COVID-19 and flu vaccines, FDA-approved RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) immunizations are now availab...

CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that work to trim and remove trees along Route 4003 in Jones and Ridgwa...

This summer, volunteers trained at Moraine State Park to collect samples of potential algae blooms and assess erosion in streams in Allegheny County p...

NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...