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6,812 results for: Insects

  1. Life

    Worries grow over monarch butterflies

    Migrants overwintering in Mexico rebounded somewhat this past winter, but still trending downward.

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  2. Plants

    Flirty Plants

    Searching for signs of picky, competitive mating in a whole other kingdom.

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  3. Life

    Life

    Jellyfish keep eyes on the sky, plus hot mosquitoes, the key to royal jelly and more in this week’s news.

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  4. BOOK REVIEW: Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman

    Review by Devin Powell.

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  5. Life

    New light on moths gone soot-colored

    Researchers trace the mutation that led to the dramatic darkening of an insect's wings during England's industrial revolution to a region rich in genes that control color patterns.

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  6. Backup Bees

    Luring and taming wild pollinators for help on the farm.

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  7. Life

    Deadly for bugs, perfect for bat naps

    A death chamber for insects, the interior of a carnivorous pitcher plant doubles as a cozy daytime roost for small, flying woolly mammals.

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  8. Life

    Biologists go bats for storm-watch data

    Borrowing meteorologists’ weather radar info may reveal new view of the ecology of flying animals.

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  9. 2011 Science News of the Year: Molecules

    Molecular muscle does the job Chemists often wish they could reach into a test tube and physically force a chemical reaction — and now they’ve come pretty darn close. In a feat of molecular arm-twisting, researchers attached polymer chains to an extremely stable ring-shaped molecule and tore it in two (SN Online: 9/15/11). The new […]

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  10. Life

    Helping Bats Hold On

    Scientists seek a savior as a deadly fungal pandemic explodes through vulnerable colonies.

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  11. Life

    Fleas leap from feet, not knees

    After years of scratching their heads over the question of exactly how the impressive jumpers launch themselves, scientists find an answer.

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  12. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1940s

    The Atomic Age, elementary finds and other highlights, 1940–49

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