Joanna Klein
‘Blame nature not pesticides’: Bee health detectives unravel mystery of 2013 Oregon bumblebee mass deaths
In June 2013, in a Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Ore., an estimated 50,000 bumblebees dropped dead. Shoppers reported bees falling from ...
Bumblebees do better in cities than on farms, study finds
Cities are filled with buildings, people and concrete — usually not seen as the ideal place for anything wild but ...
Is the nucleolus the key to stopping cellular aging?
Under a microscope, it’s hard to miss. Take just about any cell, find the nucleus, then look inside it for ...
Pumpkins, cucumbers, and watermelons diverged from a single melon ancestor
About 100 million years ago, the genome of a single melon-like fruit copied itself. Over time, this one ancestor became ...
Why are thousands of bumblebees dying around the fragrant Linden trees of London?
Visitors in the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens near London have reported hundreds, if not thousands of bees, especially bumblebees, sick or ...
Video: Plant defenses turn caterpillar pests into cannibals
If you’re a hungry caterpillar and you’ve got a choice between eating a plant or another caterpillar, which do you ...
Sniffing out the truth: Humans do have a good sense of smell
[It's] conventional wisdom that humans’ sense of smell is worse than that of other animals — dogs, mice, moles and ...
Refrigerating tomatoes causes genetic changes that reduce flavor
The tomato hitching a ride home in your grocery bag today is not the tomato it used to be. ...[I]f ...
Reproducing without males? Bees can do it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The typical story of ...
Genetically modified yeast shows off its artistic side
For centuries, humans have played around with yeast. In ancient days, we domesticated it to make beer and bread. Now, ...