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  1. Plants

    Sexually deceived flies not hopelessly dumb

    Pollinators tricked into mating with a plant become harder to fool a second time.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Animals

    Ten real-life Halloween horrors in the natural world

    Vampires and witches are nothing compared to mind-controlling parasites, nose ticks and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  3. Plants

    How female ferns make younger neighbors male

    Precocious female ferns release a partly formed sexual-identity hormone, and nearby laggards finish it and go masculine.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Life

    Epic worldwide effort explores all of insect history

    A whopper of a genetic analysis fits all living orders of insects into one genealogical evolutionary tree.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Insect queens sterilize workers with similar chemical

    When exposed to a form of saturated hydrocarbons that mimicked the queen’s scent, the worker insects’ ovaries degraded.

    By Ashley Yeager
  6. Animals

    It doesn’t always take wings to fly high

    Microbes, bees, termites and geese have been clocked at high altitudes, where air density and oxygen are low.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  7. Plants

    These trees don’t mind getting robbed

    Desert teak trees in India produce more fruit after they’ve been visited by nectar robbers.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  8. Life

    Bees need honey’s natural pharmaceuticals

    Ingredients trigger insects' genes for detoxification and immune defenses against bacteria.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Life

    The tree of life gets a makeover

    Biology’s tree of life has morphed from the familiar classroom version emphasizing kingdoms into a complex depiction of supergroups, in which animals are aligned with a slew of single-celled cousins.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Health & Medicine

    Yet another reason to hate ticks

    Ticks are tiny disease-carrying parasites that should also be classified as venomous animals, a new study argues.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  11. Paleontology

    Dinosaur dreams dashed

    Fans of 'Jurassic Park' may be disappointed (or possibly relieved) to learn that you can’t get ancient DNA from amber.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Animals

    Climate change may bring dramatic behavior shifts

    Shifting temperatures and rainfall are expected to alter animal lifestyles from the poles to the tropics.

    By Susan Milius