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1,040 results for: Butterflies
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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.
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Infected butterflies reverse sex roles
In butterfly populations afflicted by male-killing bacteria, females gather in frantic swarms to mate.
- 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.
- 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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- Animals
When Ants Squeak
In the past 20 years, researchers studying sound communication in ants have discovered a sort of ant-ernet, zinging with messages about lost relatives, great food, free rides for hitchhikers, caterpillars in search of ant partners, and impending doom.
- Earth
Greenhouse Gassed
Scientists are discovering that more carbon dioxide in the air could spell disaster for plants and the animals that love to eat them.
- Humans
Science News of the Year 2000
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2000.
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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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A Fly Called Iyaiyai
All that Latin has its light side.
