Then there is the fungus, Beauveria bassiana. This fungus is neither the tree’s nor the beetle’s friend; as a pathogenic ...

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Abstract: Despite the progress made in domain adaptation, solving Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) problems with a general method under complex conditions caused by label shifts between domains ...

Disease-carrying insects are no longer confined to the tropics or to a short summer season. From mosquitoes and ticks to the so-called kissing bug, a growing body of research shows that these vectors ...

A fossil found in Tibet has forced scientists to rewrite insect evolution, revealing a brief leap toward water.

The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by ...

Scientists are solving the mystery of when diverged from their closest relative–the brown bear. By Laura Baisas Published Sep 15, 2024 8:00 PM EDT Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily ...

Abstract: Over the past decade, domain adaptation has become a widely studied branch of transfer learning which aims to improve performance on target domains by leveraging knowledge from the source ...

It started with a bird’s nest. And ended with her name in a prominent academic journal. “As a young biologist, I never would have imagined I’d be a part of something that would get published,” said ...

Diving beetles have evolved a specialized way to breathe underwater using pockets of trapped air. New footage shows how these insects carry bubbles that function like miniature scuba tanks. The ...