Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue perched on a green leaf.
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Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a pest control method. 

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Listen to Extinct Crickets Chirp

A fossil imprint of the stridulatory apparatus from an extinct cricket species

Book Excerpt from Sounds Wild and Broken

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Unearthing the Evolutionary Origins of Insect Wings

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Why Are Some Beetles Shiny? It’s Not What Researchers Thought

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Leaping Larvae Intrigue Scientists

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E.O. Wilson, Renowned Ant Researcher, Dies at 92

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Firefly Tourism Sparks Calls for Sustainable Practices

Frozen Fecal Knives Honored by 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes

Fly Colonies Help Calculate Time of Death of Car Trunk Cadavers

The Hidden World of Millipede Sex

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Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, Some Scientists Bring the Bench Home

When Is an Endosymbiont an Organelle?

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Amid Science Cuts, Brazil’s National Museum Tries to Recover

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University of Georgia Entomologist Marianne Shockley Dies

Monarch Butterfly Conservationist Dies

Trump Nominates Scott Hutchins for USDA Top Scientist

How Corpse-Eating Beetles Avoid Infection

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President of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry Resigns

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Penguins Are Among the World’s Slowest-Evolving Birds: Study

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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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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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Image of small blue creatures called Nergals. Some have hearts above their heads, which signify friendship. There is one Nergal who is sneezing and losing health, which is denoted by minus one signs floating around it.
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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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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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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