Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning(smithsonianmag.com)

179 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 40 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 68 comments

A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation(quantamagazine.org)

137 points by theafh 3 years ago | 26 comments

7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage(smithsonianmag.com)

78 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 23 comments

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America(smithsonianmag.com)

36 points by noleary 1 year ago | 37 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics(uni-wuerzburg.de)

423 points by hhs 2 years ago | 138 comments

University of Würzburg news article reporting that Matabele ants detect infected wounds in nestmates and treat them with antibiotic secretions.

Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)(subanima.org)

320 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 225 comments

A SubAnima article explaining at several levels of explanation why honeybees die after stinging, framed around Feynman's point about 'why' questions.

Bug Blindness(danluu.com)

378 points by davidmckenna 1 month ago | 239 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that most people encounter the same software bugs he does but fail to notice them, and that products often ship badly broken.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

Why flying insects gather at artificial light(nature.com)

423 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 158 comments

Open-access Nature Communications research article (2024) investigating why flying insects gather around artificial light sources.