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Fuzzy beetle on red flower

Most bugs can’t see red—but these beetles can

several red and beige mushroom-like plants growing at the base of a tree

Asexual parasitic plants break biology’s rules

By Laura Baisas

a brown building against mountain backdrop

Visit one of the world’s most prolific research stations in Colorado mountains

By Alisha McDarris

The weevil Anchylorhynchus trapezicollis is the main pollinator of South American palm Syagrus coronata. Here, the weevil is seen on a female flower, touching the receptive parts and leaving pollen grains in the process.

Move over, bees: The lowly weevil is a power pollinator

By Laura Baisas

Five saddled camels rest in the desert. Two are laying down towards the front of the scene and three are standing in the back.

They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

By Marta Zaraska / Knowable Magazine

a moth flying up to a white flower

These furry moths smell with their wings

By Sara Hashemi

three plant species

Scientists discover how some flowers mimic the smell of death

By Lauren Leffer

An overhead shot of an ubran farm showing different segmented plots.

How urban farms can make cities more livable and help feed America

By Matt Simon / Grist

yellow pollen shooting out of a red flower

Plants could be manipulating sperm in completely new ways

By Laura Baisas

a mosquito under a microscope

What would a world without mosquitoes look like?

By RJ Mackenzie

PAMPORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 8, 2024: A Kashmiri farmer showing saffron flowers in a field during the saffron harvest season in Pampore. Saffron is a spice derived from the ‘crocus sativus’ flower and is harvested once a year from October 21 to mid-November. The world's most expensive spice-Kashmiri saffron, often referred to as "Red Gold" sells for more than 10,000 US dollars per kilogram.

How Plants Are Responding to a Warming World — And Why It Matters

By Theresa M. Crimmins / MIT Press Reader

Armenian sapphire (muscari armeniacum) flowers closeup. Shallow depth of field.

How to revamp your lawn’s reputation with bulbs

By Debbie Wolfe

Honeybee on a woman's fingertip

Honeybees understand basic math

Twin black-and-white ruffed lemurs, Maso and Tonga, explore their habitat at Central Park Zoo with their mother, Koa.

Rare twin lemurs born at New York’s Central Park Zoo

By Laura Baisas

Monarch butterfly feeding on purple aster flower in summer floral background.

How to plant a garden butterflies will love

By Debbie Wolfe

Visitors seen taking photos of the Corpse Flower's blossom at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. One of the biggest and smelliest flowers in the world blooms at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney in Australia on January 23, 2025. It last bloomed in Sydney in 2010.

5 facts about corpse flowers that don’t stink

By Laura Baisas

Ethiopian wolf licking nectar from Ethiopian red hot poker plant

Endangered Species

These wolves are the first known carnivores to ‘enjoy’ sweets

Pink clover meadow and blue sky.

This lawn-mowing robot can save part of your yard for pollinators

a peacock butterfly on a pink plant. its wings are primarily red, with black, yellow, and blue circles

Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

By Laura Baisas

CHICAGO - AUGUST 16: A walkway is visible along a side of the city of Chicago City Hall's rooftop garden August 16, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. The garden sits on the top of the 11-story city hall building and was first planted in 2000. The city says the rooftop garden/green roof consists of upwards of 100 species of growth in almost 20,000 plants. Two trees, shrubs and vines can also be found there. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities

By Matt Simon / Grist

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L - R, Sergeants Clarence Beavers, James Kornegay, Ned Bess, Corporal Elijah Wesby and Sergeant Alvin Moon of the United States Army All African American 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (nicknamed the "Triple Nickles" because of its numerical designation) aim their M3 .45-caliber submachine guns, commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" during a training exercise at Fort Benning circa February 1944 at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. These five soldiers were part of the original 17 member selection that succeeded in becoming the first All African American parachute infantry battalion. In early 1945 the battalion were sent to Camp Pendleton in Oregon and assigned to the 9th Services Command, trained by the U.S. Forest Service, and became history's first military airborne firefighting smokejumpers. (Photo by INP/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

National Park Service names 10 new American World War II Heritage cities

Artist's depiction of White Sands in New Mexico as it existed during the last ice age. At the time, it was marshy and colder, and populated by mammoths, giant sloths, and humans

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North America’s oldest human footprints tell a tale of ice age chaos

a side by side of a sleeping bat with an awake bat

Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

By Margherita Bassi

Macro Studio Shot Of Woman's Eye With Close Up On Eyelashes And Pupil

Your eyes dilate depending on your thoughts