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6,812 results for: Insects

  1. Plants

    Shutdown aside, Joshua trees live an odd life

    Growing only in the U.S. Southwest, wild Joshua trees evolved a rare, fussy pollination scheme.

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  2. Earth

    Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees C helps most species hold their ground

    Holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 could help protect tens of thousands of insect, plant and vertebrate species.

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  3. Animals

    A new species of high-altitude hummingbird may already be in trouble

    Researchers have discovered a new species of hummingbird high up in the Ecuadorian Andes.

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  4. Life

    How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly

    Changes in regulatory DNA, rather than mutations to genes themselves, grounded some birds, a study finds.

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  5. Humans

    Culture helps shape when babies learn to walk

    The culture in which a baby is raised can accelerate or slow down the development of early motor skills. Does it matter?

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  6. Life

    1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions

    One million of the world’s plant and animal species are now under threat of extinction, a new report finds.

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  7. Paleontology

    Colorful moth wings date back to the dinosaur era

    Microscopic structures that scatter light to give color to the wings of modern butterflies and moths date back almost 200 million years.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Delusions of skin infestation may not be so rare

    Delusional infestation, an unwavering belief that one’s skin is overrun with creatures or objects, may not be as rare as previously thought, researchers say.

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  9. Animals

    The Lord Howe stick insect is officially back from the dead

    New genomic sequencing confirms that stick insects discovered near Lord Howe Island are the assumed-extinct Lord Howe stick insect.

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  10. Genetics

    In lab tests, this gene drive wiped out a population of mosquitoes

    For the first time, a gene drive caused a population crash of mosquitoes in a small-scale test.

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  11. Animals

    This honeybee parasite may be more of a fat stealer than a bloodsucker

    Inventing decoy bee larvae prompts a back-to-basics rethink of a mite ominously named Varroa destructor.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    A new Ebola species has been found in bats in Sierra Leone

    A sixth species of Ebola has been found, but we don’t know if it can cause disease in humans.

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