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1,043 results for: Butterflies
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No gene is an island
Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness.
- Life
A Most Private Evolution
The most dramatic examples of the power of evolutionary theory may come from the strange and ugly stuff — biology too dumb to have been designed.
- Health & Medicine
You Are Who You Are by Default
A neural network active when the brain is at rest may prove critical to zoning out, a sense of self and envisioning the future.
- Plants
Losing life’s variety
2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity, but little has been accomplished.
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All Patterns Great and Small
Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.
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Young’uns adrift on the sea
Scientists try to identify and track elusive larvae in a boundless ocean.
- Math
A frustrating view of complexity
The unifying theme of complex systems, a researcher argues, is frustration.
- Math
The mutual inspiration of art and mathematics
Economics, origami and other fields trigger new and original creations.
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Isn’t It a Bloomin’ Crime?
Darwin called them felons, those creatures that take nectar without pollinating anything, but some modern scientists are reopening the case.
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Alarming Butterflies and Go-Getter Fish
Recent studies suggest that there may be more ways to create new species than Darwin imagined.
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Science News of the Year 2001
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2001.
