August 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
Throughout the animal kingdom, symmetry is considered beautiful. Female house finches like a male bird’s plumage to be the same shape and color on the right and left side of the body. White-tailed zygaenid moth females prefer males with symmetrical genital claspers, hind wings and...
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June 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
You've seen it and begrudgingly admired it: the speed and swiftness with which a cockroach vanishes as you enter a room. Now, researchers at UC Berkeley have figured out how these indomitable and repugnant little critters disappear so quickly. It’s a feat of gymnastic ability....
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April 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
Swedish researchers are hoping they have found a smell so disgusting that even bedbugs are repelled. It’s the smell of an alarmed adolescent bedbug. And if their study bears out, and if they can synthesize, bottle and deploy the smell sufficiently, they may have found a useful...
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August 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from Ohio authorities that would allow exterminators to use small amounts of a toxic chemical to kill bedbugs in their clients’ homes. The chemical, propoxur, can kill insecticide-resistant bedbugs. But the EPA has banned the...
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