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

By Tony Ware, Stan Horaczek

bat in the dark

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

By Trina Moyles / Hakai Magazine

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

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

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

Rhododendrons blooming.

Multiple species of Rhododendron thrive by taking turns to bloom

By Laura Baisas

#NoMowMay may just be a hashtag.

There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May’

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

The planet has 8 measures of stability—and we’re pushing past most of them

The planet has 8 measures of stability—and we’re pushing past most of them

By Carla Delgado

A blue butterfly on a pink flowering plant.

A ‘butterfly tree of life’ reveals the origins of these beautiful insects

By Laura Baisas

Cities scramble to find trees that will survive

By Laura Hautala / Grist

a fuzzy bumblebee settles on a pink flower

Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz

By Lauren J. Young

Monarch butterfly during migration perched on leaf with wings spread out

Monarch butterflies’ signature color patterns could inspire better drone design

Small flying robot perched atop cactus

This bumblebee-inspired bot can bounce back after injuring a wing

full venus flytrap on black background

These meat-eating plants are masters of deception

By Ali Blumenthal, Ellen Airhart

The miller moth is hard to love, but it deserves our respect

The miller moth is hard to love, but it deserves our respect

By Samuel Shaw/High Country News

a closeup of honeybees on honeycomb

The first honeybee vaccine could protect the entire hive, starting with the queen

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Honeybee pollinating a flower

Lab-raised bees have half the lifespan they did in the ’70s

By Laura Baisas

These species were discovered in museum collections. They might already be extinct.

These species were discovered in museum collections. They might already be extinct.

By Katarina Zimmer / Undark

Birds flying past wind turbines at sunrise

How wind turbines could coexist peacefully with bats and birds

By Katarina Zimmer / Knowable Magazine

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Woolly mammoth set in a winter scene environment.

What is ‘de-extinction’ really for?

By Taylor Dotson / MIT Press Reader