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A series of experiments has shown that a single molecule released by the queen of naked mole rat colonies prevents all the ...

Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) queens produce a chemical that prevents other females in their colony from reproducing. A study published today in Nature suggests that this compound maintains a ...

As yellow-legged hornets spread through South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, threatening the local honey crop, a state team of ...

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Few directors close the divide between the art film and the blockbuster like Christopher Nolan. By Manohla Dargis They say that you can’t go home again; in this movie, a young filmmaker learns that ...

May 28, 2026 A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it ...