Why are there so few insects in the ocean?
Insects, one of Earth's most successful organisms, represent a significant portion of all terrestrial animal biomass and global ecosystem.
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JJ Shavit
- May 3
8-year-old boy upends 100 years of research regarding insects and plants
Thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean, a groundbreaking study has turned a century of knowledge about plant and insect interactions on its head.
JJ Shavit
- Apr 3
8-year-old boy disrupts 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding insects and plants
Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean's curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions
JJ Shavit
- Mar 3
8-year-old boy rewrites 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
When Hugo Deans discovered a handful of BB-sized objects lying near an ant nest beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were seeds.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 3
8-year-old boy upends over 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
When eight-year-old Hugo Deans discovered a handful of BB-sized objects lying near an ant nest, he thought they were a type of seed.
JJ Shavit
- Jan 3
8-year-old boy upends over 100 years of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
The phenomenon was first documented 100 years ago and is commonly taught to biology students as an example of a plant-insect interaction.
JJ Shavit
- Dec 3, 2022
8-year-old boy upends a century of scientific knowledge regarding plants and insects
Team revealed a much more complex type of myrmecochory that combined the wasp-oak gall interaction with the edible appendage-ant interaction
JJ Shavit
- Nov 17, 2022
Researchers create the first-ever medication to treat Chagas disease
Researchers create the first medication with promise to successfully and safely target the parasitic infection in more than 50 years.
JJ Shavit
- Nov 3, 2022
8-year-old boy rewrites a century of knowledge regarding plants and insects
When Hugo discovered a handful of BB-sized objects lying near an ant nest beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were a type of seed
JJ Shavit
- Oct 28, 2022
How many bees can you fit in an X-ray machine? The reason why will amaze you
The results could one day help engineers design more resilient buildings, or even swarms of tiny robots that behave a lot like insects.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 26, 2022
Insects affect electric fields in the atmosphere, researchers find
The electric charge of insects can cause changes in the electricity of the atmosphere which are comparable with weather processes.
JJ Shavit
- Oct 23, 2022
Scientists create the first-ever printable, wearable insect repellent
A new type of insect-repellent delivery device has been developed by scientists from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
JJ Shavit
- Oct 3, 2022
8-year-old boy upends a century of knowledge regarding plants and insects
When eight-year-old Hugo Deans discovered a handful of BB-sized objects beneath a log in his backyard, he thought they were a type of seed.
JJ Shavit
- Aug 26, 2022
Genetic discovery could mark the end of disease-carrying mosquitoes
Genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or multiplying.
JJ Shavit
- Jul 20, 2022
Genetic discovery spells the end for disease-carrying mosquitoes
The discovery opens the door to a mosquito-specific insecticide that would not harm beneficial bees or other pollinators.
Joshua Shavit
- Jul 14, 2022
500-million-year-old fossil prompts a rethink of the evolution of insects
It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.
JJ Shavit
- Mar 30, 2022
Mosquito netting innovation halves malaria infection in Tanzania
A novel class of bed net kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move reducing malaria infections.
JJ Shavit
- Mar 11, 2022
Ants can “sniff out” cancer!
Cancer detection is a major public health challenge, and the methods currently available to achieve it are often expensive and invasive.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 19, 2022
7 reasons mosquitoes bite some people more than others
If it seems like mosquitoes love you more than other people, they very well might as around 20% of people are particularly irresistible.
JJ Shavit
- Feb 9, 2022
Chimpanzees apply insects to wounds, a potential case of medication?
A research team has, for the first time, observed chimpanzees applying insects to their own wounds and the wounds of conspecifics.
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