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6,813 results for: Insects

  1. Health & Medicine

    Efforts to control mosquitoes take on new urgency

    The major mosquito that is spreading Zika virus has quirks that make it one of the toughest to fight.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Paleontology

    Fossil reveals an ancient arthropod’s nervous system

    A roughly 520-million-year-old fossil preserved an ancient arthropod’s ventral nerve cord and peripheral nerves.

    By Helen Thompson
  3. Life

    Cyborg beetles reveal secrets of insect flight

    Remote controlled beetles swoop to the rescue in insect flight simulations.

    By Helen Thompson
  4. Science & Society

    What’s ahead for science in 2017?

    Science News writers reveal what they are watching for — and hoping for — in the year ahead.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  5. Animals

    Unknown species hide among Texas cave crickets

    A study of population structure among a genus of cave crickets reveals that new species are waiting to be discovered.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  6. Animals

    Tales of the bedbug, one of the world’s most reviled insects

    ‘Infested’ captivates with stories about the bloodsucking insects. Resurgent in many areas in the United States, bedbugs are the fastest-growing moneymaker in pest control.

    By Sid Perkins
  7. Animals

    Scientists find a crab party deep in the ocean

    A trip to check out the biodiversity off the coast of Panama revealed thousands of crabs swarming on the seafloor.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  8. Life

    A downy killer wages chemical warfare

    The common fungus Beauveria bassiana makes white downy corpses of its victims.

    By Beth Mole
  9. Animals

    Piggybacking tadpoles are epic food beggars

    Tadpoles beg so frantically among mimic poison frogs that researchers check to see whether they’re just scamming.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Astronomy

    Star-starved galaxies fill the cosmos

    Astronomers are detecting hundreds of galaxies that are almost devoid of stars. There are at least four theories on how they got that way.

    By Christopher Crockett
  11. Animals

    Insects may undermine trees’ ability to store carbon

    Insects eat more leaves on trees grown in carbon dioxide-rich environments than those grown without the extra CO2. That may undermine forests as carbon sinks in the future.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  12. Health & Medicine

    This week in Zika: Haiti hit early, possible monkey hosts, and more

    A new test for Zika, how Haiti fits into the outbreak timeline, a look at monkeys that can carry the virus, and more in this week’s Zika Watch.

    By Meghan Rosen