The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer

People with metabolic syndrome and obesity are at an increased risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease. Over the past decade, there has been intensive research into new ways to stimulate weight loss to lower this risk. One of the key tissues is the metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT). Given that this is a thermogenic tissue, it can be stimulated by cold and is suggested by som...

The Endless Summer: Thermoneutrality Prevents Monocytosis and Reduces Atherosclerosis.

Endless Resistance. Endless Antibiotics?

The practice of medicine was profoundly transformed by the introduction of the antibiotics (compounds isolated from Nature) and the antibacterials (compounds prepared by synthesis) for the control of bacterial infection. As a result of the extraordinary success of these compounds over decades of time, a timeless biological activity for these compounds has been presumed. This presumption is no l...

Migratory shearwaters integrate oceanic resources across the Pacific Ocean in an endless summer.

Electronic tracking tags have revolutionized our understanding of broad-scale movements and habitat use of highly mobile marine animals, but a large gap in our knowledge still remains for a wide range of small species. Here, we report the extraordinary transequatorial postbreeding migrations of a small seabird, the sooty shearwater, obtained with miniature archival tags that log data for estima...

Endless Interactions

You have just finished a bowl of chicken soup for lunch. As you clean up, you wash out the bowl and throw away the can. A garbage truck will haul the can to the dump where it will lie among other trash. A female fly might lay her eggs in the can, and her offspring might fly from the dump, feed on some decayed food, and then rest on top of someone’s peanut butter sandwich. Each of these interact...