Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time entomologist, has dedicated her career to learning about and protecting lifeforms like bees, wasps, moths, and butterflies.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

More than 400 students at Ramstein Elementary School recently received a hands-on lesson in science thanks to volunteers from ...

Scientists discovered that two brain chemicals in honey bees can predict how fast they will learn, offering new insight into ...

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Design an explicit, three-part learning sequence: The learning sequence starts with a pre-visit phase, followed by an outdoor visit phase, followed by a post-visit phase. Each part of the sequence ...

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Crop pests cause substantial yield losses worldwide and pose persistent challenges to sustainable agriculture.

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The researchers found that caterpillars perceive both, though they had a 10- to 100-fold greater reaction to airborne sound ...

Bees navigate their surroundings with astonishing precision. Their brains are now inspiring the design of tiny, low-power chips that could one day guide miniature robots and sensors.By Tom ...

This unsupervised strategy can help not only inexperienced animals, but also artificial intelligence, as it reduces the need ...