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Bumblebees Are Working Even Harder Than We Thought
Bumblebees are fuzzy, rotund, and indisputably adorable. They’re also secretly swole. The insects can cart around loads up to 80% of their body weight during foraging flights, and new research demonstrates that doing so probably isn’t easy.
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Here Are Some of the Freakiest Images of the Microscopic World
The scariest ant you’ve ever seen and a wasp’s stinger up close are some of the many entries in Nikon’s Small World photo contest this year.
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Male Trees, Ranked
For the past week or so, the wild idea that high concentrations of “male trees” in cities are the reason that people experience intense allergies has been gaining renewed traction in certain circles online. This and the concept of exclusively “male” trees being planted in cities in order to rob urbanites of free fruit from…