Biology
Plants also have pan antennas
Scientists have discovered the plant Marcgaravia evenia - a Cuban plant pollinated by bats that have evolved with a special leaf that acts as a pan antenna to collect ul…
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Butterfly research explores the process of evolutionary convergence
In the past 150 years, scientists have always tried to explain the convergent evolution. One of the famous examples of this is how poisonous butterflies from different s…
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Giant insects in the Gulf of Mexico
Recently, there was an image of a strange 1 meter-long insect in the water, living underwater by oil drilling workers in the Gulf of Mexico.
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See the tree 'eat meat' sparrow
The warm lid killed and 'eaten' a blue corn sparrow at a garden in Somerset, England.
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Using bees to kill caterpillars
China will release 600 million bees this month, to kill moth-destroying moths - according to Xinhua on August 8.
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Cell race
The Curie Cancer Research Institute (France) has just concluded the world's first cell race register.
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4 new viruses have been found causing massive bee deaths
After 10 months of research, the University of California, USA (UOC) experts have discovered four strange viruses that cause mass deaths in healthy bees.
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Four species of insects coming into the Red Book
Scientists from the Vietnam Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources have proposed to include four insect species in the Vietnam Red Book.
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The mysteries of Argentinian ants are aggressive
The native ants in the US are struggling hard against the strong invasion of aggressive and inverse Argentine ants. The dangerous invasion of this ant has so far not bee…
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Genetically modified rice is rampant in China
Chinese officials acknowledge that the transgenic rice has been hedged from experimental fields, illegally on the market for many years.
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Production of artificial meat from ... human feces
Scientists at Okayama Research Institute (Japan) have successfully developed an artificial meat from human feces.
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Techniques increase plant growth by 50%
A group of Mexican scientists from the Cinvestav Research Center recently developed a new active substance and technique that allows a 50% increase in crop growth as wel…
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Growing clean vegetables in weightless conditions
A group of American and Italian scientists has successfully conducted an important experiment of planting trees on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Animate life around the Earth
Take a look at the lively life around Earth with the latest images of global photographers posted in National Geographic magazine.
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Worker ants 'thanks' you transport food
A popular ant species has found a simple solution for the portion of food that is too large for the carrying capacity of one of the herds. That is, they will bring a fri…