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1,545 results for: Bees

  1. Environment

    A year long expedition spotlights night life in the Arctic winter

    Scientists anchored to an ice floe near the North Pole are investigating how life survives polar night and what changes will occur as the Arctic continues to warm.

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  2. Science & Society

    Introducing the Transparency Project

    The Transparency Project aims to be more open and accountable to readers by explaining key coverage decisions and showing how science journalism happens.

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  3. Science & Society

    How we reported on the challenges of using ancestry tests to solve crimes

    Here’s how we found out what happened when an arrest was made in the Golden State Killer case that was tied to genetic testing.

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  4. Animals

    The mystery of vanishing honeybees is still not definitively solved

    The case has never been fully closed for colony collapse disorder, and now bees face bigger problems.

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  5. Animals

    How honeybees’ royal jelly might be baby glue, too

    A last-minute pH shift thickens royal jelly enough to stick queen larvae to the ceiling of hive cells.

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  6. Animals

    Sound-absorbent wings and fur help some moths evade bats

    Tiny ultrathin scales on some moth wings absorb sound waves sent out by bats on the hunt.

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  7. Animals

    Pollen hitches a ride on bees in all the right spots

    Flower reproduction depends on the pollen that collects in hard-to-reach spots on bees, a new study shows.

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  8. Animals

    Honeybees fumble their way to blueberry pollination

    Blueberry flowers drive honeybees to grappling, even stomping a leg or two down a bloom throat, to reach pollen.

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  9. Agriculture

    Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides

    A controversial group of chemicals called neonicotinoids has a global impact, tests of honey samples show.

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  10. Life

    Nanoscale glitches let flowers make a blue blur that bees can see

    Bees learn about colorful floral rings faster when nanoscale arrays aren’t quite perfect.

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  11. Anthropology

    The way hunter-gatherers share food shows how cooperation evolved

    Camp customs override selfishness and generosity when foragers divvy up food, a study of East Africa’s Hazda hunter-gatherers shows.

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  12. Astronomy

    Young galaxies are flat, but old ones are more blobby

    A survey of hundreds of star systems precisely links the shape of a galaxy to the ages of its stars.

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