Working the Night Shift: Urban Racoons in Canada

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Life At Night, Speakers Series 2023 January 26 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Virtual Event - register by following this link. Working the night shift: Urban racoons in Canada They work at night, traveling unseen through the city like masked bandits, one of the true success stories of species adapting to human disturbance.   How do raccoons (Procyon…

Best of Both Worlds: Moth Antenna On A Smelling Drone

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RSVP to this event by clicking this link. Nature has developed amazing chemical sensors which greatly surpass man-made sensors in sensitivity and speed. A male Manduca sexta hawkmoth can sense the female’s pheromone in concentrations as small as 1 in 10^17 molecules of air! To learn more about and mimic the way moths locate food…

Galactic Archaeology: the history of our home in the cosmos

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Please RSVP for this event by following this link. The history of our universe spans 13 billion years, 99.998% of which humanity did not yet exist. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is at least ten billion years old, having survived what we believe is a violent history including several galactic collisions. While it is…

The Magical World of Bats

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Please RSVP for this event by following this link. The Magical World of Bats Like bats or not, you will after hearing and seeing for yourself what Dr. Tuttle has…