Tag: Insects
How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction...
Brian Lovett, West Virginia University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about...
Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware
E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of the word. Back...
Scientists at work: We use environmental DNA to monitor how human...
Marie Simonin, Inrae and Emily S. Bernhardt, Duke University
Rivers, lakes and wetlands cover just 1% of the Earth’s...
Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants...
Robert Schofield, University of Oregon
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The invasive emerald ash borer has destroyed millions of trees –...
Kristine Grayson, University of Richmond
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a deceptively attractive metallic-green adult beetle with...
I have city kids make comic books to create a buzz...
Katherine Richardson Bruna, Iowa State University
If humans and mosquitoes had a battle at the end of the world,...
Fireflies need dark nights for their summer light shows – here’s...
Avalon C.S. Owens, Tufts University and Sara Lewis, Tufts University
Before humans invented fire, the only things that lit...
To help insects, make them welcome in your garden – here’s...
Brian Lovett, West Virginia University
As winter phases into spring across the U.S., gardeners are laying in supplies and...
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
