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Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

Desert daisy tricks male flies with sexy evolutionary deception

By Laura Baisas

A deceased blue tit is being held in a womans hand

More than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year in US

By Lauren Leffer

Environmental DNA is everywhere. Scientists are gathering it all.

Environmental DNA is everywhere. Scientists are gathering it all.

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

Several blooming yellow sunflowers under a blue sky with white clouds.

We still don’t fully know how sunflowers turn toward the sun

By Laura Baisas

Lucid Gravity EV SUV

Electric Vehicles

Lucid says its new all-electric SUV beats Tesla Model X range by nearly 100 miles

By Kristin Shaw

dirty hands spray green plants with a plastic bottle

Pesticides leave a lasting mark on pollinating bees

By Kate Baggaley

Rafflesia kemumu in the rainforest of Sumatra.

Earth’s stinkiest flower is threatened with extinction

By Laura Baisas

A honey-infused Bee's Knees cocktail on a white plate on a table next to a jar of honey, some lemons, and a honey dipper.

The science behind mixing honey into cocktails

By Noah Lederman

A woman in a field observes a plant.

Citizen science is another great form of nature therapy

By Laura Baisas

parasitic horsehair worm

‘Brainwashing’ parasites inherit a strange genetic gap

By Maddi Langweil

a brown spotted butterfly sits on a branch

The butterfly redemption: Inside the quest to save a struggling species

By Brian Payton / Hakai Magazine

West Nile Virus cases are on the rise again: How to protect yourself

By Lauren Leffer

Swarm of invasive Apis cerana in Cairns, North Queensland.

How a single honey bee colony led to a species invasion

By Lauren Leffer

bat in the dark

Can niche lives of bats help them avoid the white-nose syndrome?

By Trina Moyles / Hakai Magazine

CES 2025: 18 new products we’re looking forward to this year

By Tony Ware, Stan Horaczek

A moth called a tobacco budworm on a green leaf. Moths like the tobacco budworm use pheromone signaling to find mates.

How male tobacco budworm moths found their perfect cologne

By Laura Baisas

Four male common fruit flies in a chain trying to mate with each other after being exposed to ozone air pollution

Horny male fruit flies plunge into chaos when exposed to air pollution

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Pink feathery muhly grass are one the many native types of grass you plant in the US.

9 native grasses that will revitalize your sad, water-wasting lawn

By Helen Bradshaw

Hybrid potatoes created by the biotechnology company Solynta, grown and recently harvested in Kenya.

How crop science is transforming the humble potato

By Martin Enserink / Undark

Rhododendrons blooming.

Multiple species of Rhododendron thrive by taking turns to bloom

By Laura Baisas

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a hand holding a yellow paper airplane against a blue sky

It’s National Paper Airplane Day: How to make a NASA-approved plane

By Laura Baisas

two sea slugs that are transluscent with yellow and black spots

Seed-size sea slug looks like an everything bagel

By Margherita Bassi

a gold medal from the 1924 olympics in paris. the text on one side reads VIII OLYMPIAD PARIS 1924 and has a rugby ball, discuss, and a harp etched in. the other shows a winner reaching down to help up a fallen competitor over the five interlocking olympic rings

Extremely rare 1924 Olympic gold medal up for auction

By Laura Baisas

hybrid cars on dealership lot

Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers

By Tik Root/Grist