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  1. Spice It Up: Naked mole-rats feel no pain from peppers, acid

    The African naked mole-rat doesn't feel pain from acid or chilies, a possible adaptation to its cramped underground habitat.

    By Ewen Callaway
  2. Paleontology

    Asian amber yields oldest known bee

    A tiny chunk of amber from Southeast Asia contains the remains of a bee that's at least 35 million years older than any reported fossil of similar bees.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Earth

    Let’s Get Vertical

    City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  4. Health & Medicine

    Sticky treatment for staph infections

    Honey from New Zealand gums up bacteria, offering a potential new means of combating difficult-to-treat infections.

    By Brian Vastag
  5. Animals

    Hot and hungry bees hit hot spots

    New lab experiments suggest that bumblebees like warm flowers and can learn color cues to pick them out.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Animals

    Sexually Deceptive Chemistry: Beetle larvae fake the scent of female bees

    Trick chemistry lets a bunch of writhing caterpillars attract a male bee that they then use as a flying taxi on their way to find food.

    By Susan Milius

  7. Genome Buzz: Honeybee DNA raises social questions

    Scientists have officially unveiled the DNA code of the western honeybee, the first genome to be sequenced for an animal with ultrastratified societies.

    By Susan Milius

  8. Bee Concerned: Big study—Selective pollinators are declining

    A new study provides evidence of a decline among some of Europe's insect pollinators and the wild plants that need them.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Computing

    Scientists Get a 2nd Life

    The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.

    By Terra Questi
  10. Animals

    The Trouble with Chasing a Bee

    Radar has long been able to detect high-flying clouds of insects, but it's taken much longer for scientists to figure out how to track your average bee.

    By Susan Milius

  11. Fly Moves: Insects buzz about in organized abandon

    Fruit flies display a penchant for spontaneous behavior that represents an evolutionary building block of voluntary choice, also known as free will, a controversial study suggests.

    By Bruce Bower
  12. Animals

    Tough policing deters cheating in insects

    In insect societies that have tough police, it's coercion, rather than kinship, that's preventing crime.

    By Susan Milius