Tag: Insects
What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the...
Brian Darby, University of North Dakota
Curious Kids is a series for children of all...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Tiny water-walking bugs provide scientists with insights on how microplastics are...
Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that can cause big problems when they enter the...
Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping...
Laurence Zwiebel, Vanderbilt University and Stephen Ferguson, Vanderbilt University
Ants can be found in nearly every location on Earth,...
Ants – with their wise farming practices and efficient navigation techniques...
Scott Solomon, Rice University
King Solomon may have gained some of his famed wisdom from an unlikely source –...
Dung beetle mothers protect their offspring from a warming world by...
Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee
If the TV series “Dirty Jobs” covered animals as well as humans, it...
Bees face many challenges – and climate change is ratcheting up...
Jennie L. Durant, University of California, Davis
The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022...
‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
