Nature and Science
•Animals, plants, planet •Small, digestible science explanations
How moss chooses the perfect sidewalk crack to colonize
Not one sidewalk, but a pattern you can spot You see it in a lot of places, not just one famous street: along Seattle sidewalks after a long wet season.
How cicadas synchronize by listening to the ground
On warm nights when cicadas are out, the sound can tighten into a steady pulse, like the insects are keeping time together.
