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Douglas Main • March 18, 2011
Fatigue affects bees’ ability to communicate
Valerie Ross • March 31, 2010
Mother crickets forewarn offspring of predators before they hatch
Ferris Jabr • January 22, 2010
The Defense Department’s attempts to merge insects and electronics are benefiting science more than the military
Frederik Joelving • July 9, 2009
Researchers struggle to produce reliable protection against the malaria parasite.
Erik Ortlip • June 23, 2009
Jean Robert Nonon raises mosquitoes at New York University, sending them across the globe for malaria research.
Frederik Joelving • June 1, 2009
After decades of abandonment, an unlikely experimental malaria vaccine is stirring again, promising to outshine all other candidates in the pharmaceutical pipeline.
Rachael Rettner • May 5, 2009
Could increasing global temperatures cause this tropical disease to spread?
Carina Storrs • April 3, 2009
New tricks to breed sexier Mediterranean fruit flies could improve control of an important agricultural pest.
Shelley DuBois • March 18, 2009
Scientists listen to the mating songs of disease-carrying mosquitoes in hopes that they’ll use what they learn to control wild populations.
Lindsey Konkel • January 29, 2009
One bee scientist looks ahead by cataloguing the past.
Lindsey Konkel • November 5, 2008
One ugly insect overturns assumptions about the best mate.
Eric R. Olson • May 9, 2008
How pine beetles are threatening the boreal forest and potentially contributing to climate change.
Greg Soltis • April 2, 2008
Even wasps may have the genetic blueprint for motherly love.
Natalie Peretsman • March 12, 2008
A vaccine ready for its final trial phase may protect African infants and children.
Christopher Intagliata • January 14, 2008
No, it’s not a medieval legend or a chess game – it’s a bee colony in South Africa. A recent study on the Cape Bee subspecies (Apis mellifera capensis) shows […]