Road salt makes male butterflies brawnier, females brainier
Monday, June 9, 2014 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
It may be a distant memory as the height of summer approaches, but all that roadside salt laid down in the winter in the icy, snowy parts of the U.S. is changing the bodies and brains of butterflies in strange ways, says a team of scientists at the University of Minnesota.