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6,813 results for: Insects

  1. Animals

    Elephant shrews are, oddly, related to actual elephants

    A new species in the group is the smallest yet, with adults smaller than a newborn kitten.

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  2. Animals

    Hummingbirds evolved a strange taste for sugar

    While other birds seem to lack the ability to taste sugar, hummingbirds detect sweetness using a repurposed sensor that normally responds to savory flavors.

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  3. Animals

    How a chimp goes mattress hunting

    Chimpanzees prefer firm beds made of ironwood, a new study finds.

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  4. Life

    In a crisis, fruit flies do stunt turns

    An elaborate monitoring system reveals that fruit flies can execute sophisticated flying maneuvers in the face of danger.

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  5. Animals

    It doesn’t always take wings to fly high

    Microbes, bees, termites and geese have been clocked at high altitudes, where air density and oxygen are low.

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  6. Animals

    A brief history of animal death in space

    The Russian “sexy space geckos” join a long list of creatures that have died after humans sent them into space.

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  7. Animals

    Young insect legs have real meshing gears

    Tiny teeth on hiplike structures keep legs in sync, allowing juvenile planthoppers to jump.

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  8. Life

    Fledgling birds change rules for caterpillar color

    An unusual experiment shows that larvae lose the advantage of warning colors during the seasonal flush of naïve predators.

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  9. Life

    Targeting single set of nerve cells may block mosquitoes

    The insects use the same neurons to detect carbon dioxide from our breath and odors from our skin so blocking those cells could lead to more simplified repellent systems.

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  10. Life

    Thank insects and microbes that we aren’t over our knees in feces

    Ever wondered why you’re not drowning in poop? Scientists harnessed the power of citizen science to find the beetles and microbes we can thank for that.

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  11. Life

    Hummingbirds take stab at rivals with dagger-tipped bills

    Sharp points on the bills of male long-billed hermit hummingbirds may have evolved as weaponry.

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  12. Plants

    Milkweed ‘horns’ may equal wins in reproduction battle

    Plants may be ripping a page right from bucks’ playbooks, developing hornlike weapons to improve their chances of reproduction.

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