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IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Justin Mullins |
LEDs Could Borrow From Beetles A synthetic version of the Cyphochilus beetle shell could one day be used to make white LEDs more efficient for tasks such as household lighting. |
Scientific American April 2009 Wilcox et al. |
News Scan Briefs: Anti-Loudness Protein Could Help Future Rockers A pill to save your hearing... Heating genes with sonic waves... A calcium conundrum explained... Math against profiling... Cannibalistic beetles... No nets in the arctic... |
Salon.com October 28, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web. |
Science News October 6, 2001 Ivars Peterson |
Spotting Ladybugs A simple mathematical model that generates patterns similar to those found on ladybugs. |
Chemistry World December 18, 2014 Victoria Richards |
Catching water with imitation beetle bumps Inspired by both desert beetles and marine mussels, scientists in Saudi Arabia have devised a new method for creating micropatterned superhydrophobic surfaces that efficiently harvest fog. |
Popular Mechanics July 1, 2009 Lisa Merolla |
Top 18 Species Named After Famous People Naming species after celebrities is one seriously effective way for scientists to draw attention to taxonomy. |
National Gardening |
Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes. |
National Gardening Whitney Cranshaw |
The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes... |
Science News April 28, 2007 Janet Raloff |
Gardeners' Friend Causes a Stink An invasive ladybug species is contributing a bad taste to wines made from infested grapes. |
National Gardening Jim Wilson |
The Day the Ladybugs Came When a blessing becomes a nusiance: lady beetles may cause inconvenience but will do no actual harm when clustered in or on houses. |
Chemistry World February 27, 2015 Vicki Marshall |
Petrified beetles Scientists in Germany have successfully preserved delicate structural details in scarab beetles by using an ionic polymer to drive carbonization. |
Chemistry World April 30, 2007 Michael Gross |
Deadly Beetles Intercept Bee's Warnings The small hive beetle invades colonies of the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) but not of the African strain. Researchers in the US have now found that the bee's very own chemical alarm signal plays an important role in the beetle's success. |