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Anne Madden sees the beauty and brawn of creepy-crawly microbes and how they may hold the solution to many human problems.

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Bock's pygmy octopus in a lab tank—researchers explore if invertebrates like octopuses and crabs can feel emotions.

Do Crabs Have Feelings? Exploring Emotions in Invertebrates

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Some Bats Buzz Like Hornets to Deter Predators

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Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study

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Climate Change and Agriculture Together Halve Insect Populations

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Even the Tiniest of Birds Use Smell in Some Situations

Insects Might Be More Sensitive to Radiation than Thought

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Bee Reports over the Past Century Indicate a Loss of Diversity

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Q&A: Global Insect Declines Due to “Death by a Thousand Cuts”

Honeybee Microbes Shape the Colony’s Social Behavior

Once Is Enough For Long-Term Memory Formation in Bees

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Climate Change Linked to Drop in Bumble Bee Numbers: Study

Engineered Microbe in Bees’ Guts Fends off Deadly Varroa Mite

Amidst UK Pollinator Declines, Migrant Hoverflies Are Doing Well

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EPA Cancels Registrations for 12 Neonicotinoid Pesticides

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Artificial Intelligence Could Help Monitor Bee Health

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Pesticide Marketed as Safe for Bees Harms Them in Study

Widespread Declines in UK’s Pollinators: Study

Image of the Day: Seeing is Bee-lieving

Honeybees Enter Virtual Reality So Scientists Can Study Their Brains

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Waters Enhances Alliance iS HPLC System Software, Setting a New Standard for End-to-End Traceability and Data Integrity 

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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