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Esther Ngumbi believes that chemical signals between plants, microbes, and insects hold the key to secure and sustainable food production.

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Trees’ Scent Tricks Hornets Into Shuttling Seeds

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Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage

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Do Invertebrates Have Emotions?

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Science Snapshot: Insect Resurrection

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Some Bats Buzz Like Hornets to Deter Predators

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Climate Change and Agriculture Together Halve Insect Populations

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

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Antibiotics Given to Moths Spur Upregulation of Growth Genes

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Chimps Appear to Treat Others' Wounds Using Insects

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Termite Brains Anticipate Future Visual Challenges

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A Single Transcription Factor Changes Ants to Queens

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Australian Beetles Walk on the Underside of Water’s Surface

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Scientists Go Down the Cicada Hole

Invertebrate Density Influences Plant Flowering Times, Abundance

Fly Colonies Help Calculate Time of Death of Car Trunk Cadavers

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Infographic: How a Venus Flytrap Snaps

Generations of Insect Attacks Drive Plants to “Talk” Publicly

Eating Up the Food Chain

Genetics Models Move Beyond Drosophila and the Humble Lab Mouse

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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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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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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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