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A fossil mistaken for a baby shrimp for nearly 40 years turned out to be an entirely new species of ancient insect with 24 paddle-like legs. The discovery helps solve one of biology's biggest puzzles about how insects first moved from water to land.
Scientists just discovered insect larvae thriving at crushing depths in Lake Malawi where no insects should survive. Their secret? Specially reinforced air sacs that resist extreme underwater pressure.
New research reveals Earth hosts 20 million insect species—triple previous estimates—using innovative tracking methods borrowed from disease epidemiology. We've only discovered 1.5 million so far, meaning countless tiny wonders remain hidden in forests worldwide.
A groundbreaking study of over 750 Nobel Prize and major discoveries reveals that new tools and methods, not just funding or theory, drive most scientific breakthroughs. The findings could help us predict and accelerate future discoveries across all fields of science.
Meet the froghopper, a tiny Amazon insect that creates a protective bubble home from sap, air, and its own waste. Once it grows up, it becomes one of nature's most incredible athletes, jumping nearly 100 times its own body length.
A damselfly unseen for 102 years and a rare moth once thought extinct have reappeared on Hawaiian islands where scientists had given up hope. The insects survived by adapting to habitats experts had written off as worthless. #
Two brothers in Bangkok just launched a private insect museum to help city dwellers reconnect with the tiny creatures that keep our world alive. Their hands-on workshops turn everyday nature encounters into real scientific discoveries.
Researchers used lasers and AI to reconstruct the calls of cricket-like insects from the Jurassic period, revealing that some sang at frequencies beyond human hearing millions of years before bats existed. This discovery rewrites what we thought we knew about why insects evolved ultrasonic communication.
Scientists discovered two new colonies of the Lord Howe Island stick insect on a remote volcanic outcrop, 25 years after the species was rediscovered. Once so common they were used as fishing bait, these rare insects are bouncing back thanks to a global breeding program.
Scientists in Kenya are using crickets, mealworms, and other insects to create jobs, fight hunger, and lift nearly a million people out of poverty. Eight beneficial insects are reshaping Africa's food system in surprising ways.
Scientists just discovered that insects have been mimicking flowering plants for 99 million years—more than double what we previously thought. A tiny moth lacewing preserved in amber reveals nature's oldest masterclass in camouflage.
Thousands of drivers across Southeast England are joining a citizen science project that counts bug splats on car plates to help scientists understand and protect insect populations. The simple survey method has already revealed crucial data that's now expanding internationally.
A material scientist found a pattern that textbooks said couldn't exist, and his curiosity changed how we understand the atomic world. The discovery that started with "10 fold???" scribbled in a notebook led to an entirely new field of materials science.
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A forgotten fossil from Texas reveals a 24-legged creature that helps explain how water-dwelling crustaceans evolved into the land-loving insects we see everywhere today. Scientists say this discovery fills an 80-million-year gap in understanding one of evolution's greatest success stories.
A casual bushwalk near Mildura led to a scientific first when Judy Allen photographed an insect species never before captured in the wild. Her discovery is helping fill crucial gaps in Australia's biodiversity data.
Researchers have reconstructed the mating calls of Jurassic grasshoppers using fossilized wings, revealing Earth's oldest sound ever reproduced. The discovery shows that 165 million years ago, the prehistoric world was far richer in sound than anyone imagined.
Scientists at the University of Arkansas discovered rice plants can trap and kill armyworm caterpillars using their flowers like natural pest traps. This accidental finding could help farmers fight crop-destroying insects without toxic chemicals.
When paleontologist John Ostrom saw photos of a fluffy dinosaur fossil in 1996, he began to cry and nearly collapsed. The discovery finally proved his decades-old theory that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Scientists can now use AI systems that work like a coordinated research team, automatically handling complex drug discovery tasks that used to take months. This breakthrough could make cutting-edge drug research accessible to organizations that couldn't afford it before.
A new collaboration between Microsoft and biotech company Causaly is bringing AI-powered scientific reasoning to drug discovery, potentially cutting research time from years to months. The partnership announced June 4 could help scientists find new treatments faster by connecting millions of research papers with cutting-edge analytics.
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