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1,548 results for: Bees

  1. Life

    News in brief: Counting project reveals forest’s bug diversity

    Some 25,000 species of arthropods live in Panamanian forest.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Life

    Invasive mite worsens honeybee viruses

    Once-obscure deformed wing virus swept to prominence in honeybee colonies in Hawaiian islands as invasive pest arrived.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Life

    Pesticide-dosed bees lose future royalty, way home

    Unusual field tests reveal how common insecticides, even at nonfatal doses, can erode colonies and threaten the future of bumblebees and honeybees.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Microbes

    Microscopic menagerie

    The microbes dwelling in and on multicellular organisms should be viewed as evolutionarily inseparable from their hosts, some biologists argue.

    By Susan Milius

  5. Highlights from the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, San Francisco

    Estrogen mimics may delay puberty and honeybees hurting from pesticides.

    By Janet Raloff
  6. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Animals

    Sea slug carries disposable penis, plus spares

    A hermaphroditic gastropod sheds its penis after one use, then uncoils another.

    By Susan Milius
  8. Science & Society

    Heal thy neighbor

    As antidepressants and other drugs gradually replace psychotherapy in the United States, new forms of the talking cure are growing in popularity in developing countries ravaged by civil war and poverty.

    By Bruce Bower

  9. Backup Bees

    Luring and taming wild pollinators for help on the farm.

    By Susan Milius

  10. A Bee in a Cathedral: And 99 Other Scientific Analogies by Joel Levy

    One hundred analogies and metaphors make science more visual: Learn how chemical reactions are like school dances and how long it would take to type the human genome. A BEE IN A CATHEDRAL, JOEL LEVY Firefly Books, 2011, 224 p., $29.95

    By Science News
  11. Animals

    In the Eye of the Tiger

    Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions.

    By Carrie Arnold

  12. Mixed Results

    Having the right blend of animal personalities can make or break a group

    By Susan Milius