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6,813 results for: Insects

  1. Life

    Superloud moth jams bat sonar

    Newly recorded moth could be the first demonstrated case of natural sonar-jamming.

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  2. Aping the Stone Age

    Chimp chasers join artifact extractors to probe the roots of stone tools.

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  3. Let there be light

    New technology illuminates neuronal conversations in the brain

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  4. Life

    Sting Operation

    Scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the illicit and the dangerous.

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  5. Life

    Love song of the dengue vector mosquito

    Male and female mosquitoes harmonize pitch when in the mood.

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  6. Agriculture

    Candy cane strategy sweetens life for goldenrods

    Goldenrods temporarily duck their heads during pest season

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  7. Animals

    Forensics’ next tool: Hair-collecting caterpillars

    First human DNA extraction from hair bits in moth larval case.

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  8. Letters

    Making tall or short of it In your article “The genetic dimension of height and health” ( SN: 5/9/09, p. 22 ), some medical consequences of being either taller or shorter than the median height of the study group are explained. To help us all extrapolate these findings to our own lives, don’t you think […]

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  9. Earth

    North America’s smallest dino predator

    A new fossil analysis uncovers what may have been North America’s tiniest dino predator.

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  10. Life

    Phony fighters discovered among fig wasps

    A newly discovered species of fig wasp has a fraction of dishonest guys with big mouthparts.

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  11. Plants

    Oops, missed that tree

    Until now, an acacia common in its African homeland had no scientific name

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  12. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

    Ancient ocean-dwelling arthropods may have worn shells to enable their transition to land.

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