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1,041 results for: Butterflies

  1. Pop chirp bite crunch chew

    The ultrasonic din of dying trees inspires a new kind of research to save forests from beetle attacks — and battle climate change

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  2. 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.

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  3. Life

    Darwin’s Evolution

    Darwin's life and his contribution to science.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. Plants

    Losing life’s variety

    2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity,  but little has been accomplished.

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  7. All Patterns Great and Small

    Researchers uncover the origins of creatures’ stripes and spots.

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  8. Young’uns adrift on the sea

    Scientists try to identify and track elusive larvae in a boundless ocean.

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  9. Infected butterflies reverse sex roles

    In butterfly populations afflicted by male-killing bacteria, females gather in frantic swarms to mate.

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  10. Animals

    Butterfly ears suggest a bat influence

    Researchers have found the first bat-detecting ear in a butterfly and suggest that the threat of bats triggered the evolution of some moths into butterflies.

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  11. Math

    A frustrating view of complexity

    The unifying theme of complex systems, a researcher argues, is frustration.

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  12. Math

    The mutual inspiration of art and mathematics

    Economics, origami and other fields trigger new and original creations.

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