How a Firefly Course Is Saving Japan’s Favorite Glowing Insect
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At the third meeting of ...
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The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code
June 2021, GitHub has announced Copilot, an auto-completion feature for computer code powered by OpenAI's text generation technology. It ...
Scientists Are Gene-Editing Flies to Fight Crop Damage
In 2008, a A fruit fly known as Drosophila spottedwings traveled from Southeast Asia to the continental United States, ...
Bees Get All the Love. Won’t Someone Think of the Moths?
look we get It - bees are awesome. As more people flock to cities in the coming decades, we'll ...
How Supergenes Beat the Odds—and Fuel Evolution
Supergenes can also complicate the mating process. In some species, hypergenes have created a breeding system that actually has ...
This Fake Skin Fools Mosquitoes—to Fight the Diseases They Spread
deadliest in the world Animals are picky eaters.Because they transmit viral diseases like Zika and chikungunya, as well as ...
Please Stop Freaking Out About This Giant Yellow Spider
Native to East Asia, Jorōs are one of many so-called golden orb weavers, named for the shiny silk they ...
Scientists Reexamine Why Zebra Stripes Mysteriously Repel Flies
For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton University, and her team wanted to test the ...
To Ditch Pesticides, Scientists Are Hacking Insects’ Sex Signals
It has taken almost a decade to prove that this method of producing pheromones works and works. "We are ...
A New Explanation for How Fireflies Flash in Sync
A similar situation arose in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Foster read a confident assertion by ...
