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6,812 results for: Insects

  1. Animals

    How architecture can make ants better workers

    The right nest architecture can make harvester ants better at their job, new research shows.

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  2. Neuroscience

    Fruit flies flee from shadows

    Studying flies’ responses to an ominous shadow may lead to a deeper understanding of humans’ emotions.

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  3. Animals

    Where an ant goes when it’s gotta go

    Scientists found black garden ants defecating in certain spots inside their nests. The researchers say these spots serve as ant toilets.

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  4. Animals

    Ant-eating bears help plants

    A complex web of interactions gives a boost to rabbitbrush plants when black bears consume ants.

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  5. Animals

    How bears engineer Japanese forests

    In Japanese forests, black bears climb trees, breaking limbs. Those gaps in the forest provide light to fruiting plants, a new study finds.

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  6. Genetics

    The year in genomes

    From the tiny Antarctic midge to the towering loblolly pine, scientists this year cracked open a variety of genetic instruction manuals to learn about some of Earth’s most diverse inhabitants.

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  7. Plants

    What fairy circles teach us about science

    Science can’t yet tell us how fairy circles form, but that’s not a failure for science.

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  8. Plants

    Flowers’ roles considered in ecosystems and economics

    In ‘The Reason for Flowers’, a pollination ecologist chronicles the science and culture of blossoms from the dawn of humanity.

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  9. Paleontology

    Ancient comb jellies might have had skeletons

    Soft and filmy today, comb jellies might once have had rigid skeletons.

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  10. Animals

    Caterpillar treats and tricks ants by oozing spiked juice

    Caterpillars ooze droplets that lure ants away from colony duties to instead lick and defend their drug source, new lab tests suggest.

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  11. Science & Society

    Science News’ favorite books of 2015

    The Science News staff offers its must-read picks of 2015.

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  12. Life

    Sexual conflict in mosquitoes may have worsened spread of malaria

    Sexual conflict in Anopheles mosquitoes may have intensified their power to fuel human malaria.

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