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6,812 results for: Insects

  1. Animals

    How honeybees’ royal jelly might be baby glue, too

    A last-minute pH shift thickens royal jelly enough to stick queen larvae to the ceiling of hive cells.

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  2. Animals

    The key to breaking down plastic may be in caterpillars’ guts

    Caterpillars that feast on plastic have different gut microbes than those that eat a grain-based diet.

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  3. Paleontology

    Shhhh! Some plant-eating dinos snacked on crunchy critters

    Scientists studying dinosaur poop found that some duck-billed dinos cheated on their vegetarian diets by snacking on crustaceans.

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  4. Animals

    Fighting like an animal doesn’t always mean a duel to the death

    Conflict resolution within species isn’t always deadly and often involves cost-benefit analyses.

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  5. Ecosystems

    Beavers are engineering a new Alaskan tundra

    Climate change has enabled the recent expansion of beavers into northwestern Alaska, a trend that could have major ecological consequences for the region in the coming decades.

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  6. Animals

    Here’s why some water striders have fans on their legs

    A fan of tiny, elegant plumes on their legs helps certain water striders dash across flowing water without getting wet.

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  7. Animals

    Blowflies use drool to keep their cool

    Personal air conditioning the blowfly way: Dangle a droplet of saliva and then reswallow.

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  8. Animals

    Bedbugs may be into dirty laundry

    When humans aren’t around, bedbugs go for the next best thing: smelly human laundry.

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  9. Tech

    This is the lightest robot that can fly, swim and take off from water

    Lightweight, insect-inspired robot can swim, fly and leap from the surface of water.

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  10. Animals

    The blue wings of this dragonfly may be surprisingly alive

    The wings of adult morpho dragonflies show tiny respiratory channels that may support a complex of nanostructures that shine blue.

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  11. Climate

    Climate change might help pests resist corn’s genetic weapon

    Rising temperatures may allow pests to eat corn that is genetically modified to produce an insect-killing toxin.

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  12. Physics

    Gravity doesn’t leak into large, hidden dimensions

    Gravitational waves from a recently observed neutron star merger offer no evidence of large, unknown dimensions.

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