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Insects
Insects are hexapod invertebrates that are classed as Arthropoda within the group of anthropod phylum. Insects consist of the largest diversity of animal with more than one million species and account for more than half of all living organisms.
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FEB 11, 2017Videos
Scientists have well-documented evidence that animals and certain insects communicate via chemical signals in excreted o ...FEB 06, 2017Plants & Animals
You’ve all probably seen it: a frog snatching a fly in mid-air with its tongue. Whether you’ve seen it in a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 26, 2017Videos
Animals with exceptional features have always been an interesting point of discussion. How did so many evolve? And so di ...Written By: Jennifer EllisJAN 23, 2017Plants & Animals
Climate change impacts every species on Earth, including some of the smallest insects that rely on just the right weathe ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 22, 2017Microbiology
Can insects get infected with bacteria? Sure they can, but it doesn’t happen all that often. That fact spar ...Written By: Kerry EvansJAN 13, 2017Videos
In the following video from Illumina Inc you can get a look at the some of the research done by Caroline Roper of the Un ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 08, 2017Plants & Animals
Sleep is defined as a reversible condition of reduced responsiveness usually associated with immobility. The decreased a ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 17, 2016Plants & Animals
Every day, scientists are learning of more and more new species of animals, insects, and microorganisms that inhabit the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 13, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Brains are complex; studying brain function often involve simple organisms, like honeybees, which provided a finding tha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Magnetoreception enables animals to sense magnetic fields, which helps them navigate and orient themselves through the p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2016Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 26, 2016Microbiology
Viruses are a unique form of life that have challenged scientists since the dawn of biomedical research. They have even ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 26, 2016Plants & Animals
You’ve probably heard of stick insects, which can disguise themselves in the wild as small sticks or twigs, but ho ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 24, 2016Microbiology
New work in Applied and Environmental Microbiology investigated the amount of bacterial growth on whole lettuce leaves a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A trace of us is left on everything we come into contact with, in the form of microbes and trace amounts of chemicals. R ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 15, 2016Videos
Pesticides are man-made chemicals we use to control insects, fungi, and other pests that might negatively affect food cr ...Written By: Jennifer EllisNOV 04, 2016Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 04, 2016Microbiology
Here’s a question. Is Lyme disease more common nowadays? Lyme disease used to be a disease specific to the ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 28, 2016Plants & Animals
Image Credit: Albertina Pimentel Lima Somewhere in the middle of the Amazon rain forest in South America is a strange ki ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 28, 2016Space & Astronomy
Certainly one of the things we will need to get very good at if we’re ever to send humans to Mars to live and stud ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2016Videos
After death, decomposition starts, a process that is aided by microbes. The decomposing corpse becomes a veritable minia ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2016Chemistry & Physics
Crystallography Solves Unknown Structure of Novel Mosquito Toxin That Can Help Control ZikaWritten By: Jennifer EllisOCT 17, 2016Plants & Animals
The humble bee is a lot smarter than you think it is. Despite having significantly less brain mass than that of you or m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 17, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila, the fruit fly, has been used as a model organism for decades by researchers investigate many different biolo ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
FEB 11, 2017
Videos
Scientists have well-documented evidence that animals and certain insects communicate via chemical signals in excreted o
...
FEB 06, 2017
Plants & Animals
You’ve all probably seen it: a frog snatching a fly in mid-air with its tongue. Whether you’ve seen it in a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 26, 2017
Videos
Animals with exceptional features have always been an interesting point of discussion. How did so many evolve? And so di
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
JAN 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
Climate change impacts every species on Earth, including some of the smallest insects that rely on just the right weathe
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 22, 2017
Microbiology
Can insects get infected with bacteria? Sure they can, but it doesn’t happen all that often. That fact spar
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 13, 2017
Videos
In the following video from Illumina Inc you can get a look at the some of the research done by Caroline Roper of the Un
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
Sleep is defined as a reversible condition of reduced responsiveness usually associated with immobility. The decreased a
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
Every day, scientists are learning of more and more new species of animals, insects, and microorganisms that inhabit the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 13, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Brains are complex; studying brain function often involve simple organisms, like honeybees, which provided a finding tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Magnetoreception enables animals to sense magnetic fields, which helps them navigate and orient themselves through the p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
As much of Antarctica remains unexplored because of its vastness and mysteriousness, any discovery that we come across o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 26, 2016
Microbiology
Viruses are a unique form of life that have challenged scientists since the dawn of biomedical research. They have even
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2016
Plants & Animals
You’ve probably heard of stick insects, which can disguise themselves in the wild as small sticks or twigs, but ho
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 24, 2016
Microbiology
New work in Applied and Environmental Microbiology investigated the amount of bacterial growth on whole lettuce leaves a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A trace of us is left on everything we come into contact with, in the form of microbes and trace amounts of chemicals. R
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 15, 2016
Videos
Pesticides are man-made chemicals we use to control insects, fungi, and other pests that might negatively affect food cr
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
According to the geologic time scale, Earth has already experienced five mass extinctions. The most famous mass extincti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 04, 2016
Microbiology
Here’s a question. Is Lyme disease more common nowadays? Lyme disease used to be a disease specific to the
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 28, 2016
Plants & Animals
Image Credit: Albertina Pimentel Lima Somewhere in the middle of the Amazon rain forest in South America is a strange ki
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 28, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Certainly one of the things we will need to get very good at if we’re ever to send humans to Mars to live and stud
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Videos
After death, decomposition starts, a process that is aided by microbes. The decomposing corpse becomes a veritable minia
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Crystallography Solves Unknown Structure of Novel Mosquito Toxin That Can Help Control Zika
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 17, 2016
Plants & Animals
The humble bee is a lot smarter than you think it is. Despite having significantly less brain mass than that of you or m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Drosophila, the fruit fly, has been used as a model organism for decades by researchers investigate many different biolo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch