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This Plant Has Been Hiding a Killer Secret. Darwin Called It 150 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: saxifraga, darwin, plants

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Tiny patch of Amazon probably holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lenharo | tags: amazon, insect biodiversity, dna barcoding

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Tiny patch of Amazon likely holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lenharo | tags: amazon, insect biodiversity, dna barcoding

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Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: electron microscope, femtosecond laser, insects

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Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater (techspot.com)

2026-07-06 | get Cyborg Cockroach Mini Suit → | tags: air limits, cockroaches, cockroaches rely

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Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hours (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-03 | by Bruno Ferreira | get 3D-Printed RC Cockroach → | tags: cockroach, insects, latest

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Mysterious protein sets up a beneficial partnership between bacteria and insects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | get Bacterial Insect Symbiosis Kit → | tags: protein, bacteria, insects

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Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Fan | tags: cyborg insect, diving suit, oxygen generator

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Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | by Fan | tags: cyborg insect, underwater suit, oxygen generator

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Holy Crap, We Were Way Off About How Many Insect Species Live on Earth (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-29 | get Insect Identification Guide → | tags: insect species, earth, new study

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Bees Can Use Tools To Solve Problems, Study Finds (slashdot.org)

2026-06-05 | get Bee Tool Use Model → | tags: bees, brains, findings

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What Happened to the Locusts? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | get Locust Swarm Tracker App → | tags: locusts, agriculture, pest control

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Best Bug Spray (2026), Tested and Reviewed (wired.com)

2026-05-07 | by Kristin Canning | get Natural Bug Spray → | tags: mosquitoes, west nile virus, lyme disease

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Legal rights for insects: a global imperative for stingless-bee conservation (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-05 | by Wang | get Insect Conservation Guide → | tags: stingless-bee, insect rights, conservation

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Yellow glass shows insect wings at their best (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-21 | get Yellow Glass Insect Viewer → | tags: yellow glass, insect wings, nature.com

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Iceland Just Got Its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get Mosquito Repellent Spray → | tags: iceland, mosquitoes, arctic

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Iceland Just Got its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get Mosquito Repellent Spray → | tags: iceland, mosquitoes, arctic

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Acceptance of entomophagy among Canadians at an insectarium (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-30 | by Velchovska | get Insect Protein Snack → | tags: entomophagy, insectarium, verbeke

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Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-26 | get Antique Insect Specimen Kit → | tags: primordial bugs, insect size, ancient insects

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Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-25 | by Snelling | get Insect Anatomy Model Kit → | tags: insect gigantism, tracheolar–muscle system, oxygenic photosynthesis

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Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-25 | by Petrić Howe | get Insect Exoskeleton Model Kit → | tags: nature.com, internet explorer, css

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Scientists can now build a cyborg cockroach that can pull miniature rigs through pipelines to find leaks (techspot.com)

2026-03-19 | get RoboRoach Pipeline Explorer → | tags: cyborg cockroach, hirotaka sato, ntu

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This USB-C accessory gave my iPhone and Android a surprisingly useful functionality (zdnet.com)

2026-02-12 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Power Bank → | tags: android, bite, bites

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This USB-C accessory gave my iPhone and Android an unexpectedly useful superpower (zdnet.com)

2026-02-08 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Power Bank → | tags: android, bite, bites

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Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | by Jesse Jenkins | get Anteaters → | tags: ants, ants termites, barden

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How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-26 | by Anna Heim | get Insect farming → | tags: animal, animal feed, feed

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A German startup is turning cockroaches into cyborg spies (techspot.com)

2025-12-17 | get Cyborg Spies → | tags: actually, actually produced, biology labs

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Light-driven cockroach cyborgs navigate without wires or surgery (sciencedaily.com)

2025-11-03 | get Cyborg Cockroaches → | tags: control, cyborg, electrical

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Stinkbug Leg Organ Hosts Symbiotic Fungi That Protect Eggs from Parasitic Wasps (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: fungal, insect, organ

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Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Gesine Steiner | get science reference book → | tags: feeding, insect, larvae