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1,040 results for: Butterflies

  1. Animals

    New Green Eyes: First butterfly that’s genetically modified

    Scientists have genetically engineered a butterfly for the first time, putting a jellyfish protein into a tropical African species so that its eyes fluoresce green.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Agriculture

    Rethinking Refuges? Drifting pollen may bring earlier pest resistance to bioengineered crops

    Pollen wafting from bioengineered corn to traditional varieties may be undermining the fight to keep pests from evolving resistance to pesticides.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Ecosystems

    Insects, pollen, seeds travel wildlife corridors

    Strips of habitat boost insect movement, plant pollination, and seed dispersal among patches of the same ecosystem.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Earth

    Bt Corn Risk to Monarchs Is ‘Negligible’

    A much-anticipated report states that the most commonly planted forms of genetically engineered Bt corn pose only a "negligible" risk to monarch butterfly populations.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Poison birds copy ‘don’t touch’ feathers

    A subspecies of one of New Guinea's poisonous pitohui birds may be mimicking a toxic neighbor, according to a new genetic analysis.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Materials Science

    Waterproof Coats: Materials repel water with simplicity, style

    Researchers have produced new types of water-repelling surfaces, including one that's colorful and another made of inexpensive plastic.

    By Jessica Gorman

  7. Fig-Wasp Upset: Classic partnership isn’t so tidy after all

    Genetic analysis suggests that a textbook example of a tight buddy system in nature—fig species that supposedly each have their own pollinating wasp species—may need to be rewritten.

    By Susan Milius
  8. Animals

    Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery

    Old-style epidemiology casework combines with an array of 21st-century lab tests in the search for clues to the disappearance of honeybees.

    By Susan Milius

  9. Evolution’s Wedges

    Finding the genes that drive one species into two.

    By Daniel Strain
  10. Health & Medicine

    Residents of the brain

    It's a zoo in there: Scientists turn up startling diversity among neurons.

    By Laura Sanders

  11. Lopped Off

    Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.

    By Nadia Drake
  12. Tech

    Out of the Box

    3-D entertainment steps beyond the glasses and headaches.

    By Devin Powell