Scientists See Prime Suspect in Mass Deaths of Bees
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One bee disease, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, seems strongly associated with the beekeeping operations that experienced big losses.
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Science & environment: Warning by scientists after study reveals toll from accidents, drugs and alcohol.
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Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate in 24 states, threatening the production of numerous crops.
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A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.
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Croatian researchers train bees to detect landmines laid during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery. To try to identify a teenage girl found slain in a western New York cornfield in 1979, investigators have turned to a pollen-analysis technique rarely used in the United States.
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Honeybees massacred by oriental assassins The French honey industry is under threat from hoards of bee-massacring oriental hornets, the Daily Telegraph reports.â¦
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With spring approaching, Virginia scientists are planning a more comprehensive effort to find the cause of the mysterious fish kills in the Shenandoah River and its tributaries.
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery.
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Scientists at a U.S. weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for U.S. homeland security and the Iraq war.
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Farmworkers exposed to high levels of pesticides, as well as home gardeners who use these chemicals to kill insects and fungus on their house plants, run a higher risk of brain cancer, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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Microscopic traces of pollen are increasingly being used by world police forces to track down both victims and offenders, a British conference heard on Wednesday.
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Funds research into apiarian apocalypse Ice cream manufacturer HÃ¤agen-Dazs is stumping up a $250,000 research grant to university researchers in California and Pennsylvania to probe the cause of "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD) - the unexplained sudden disappearance of millions of honeybees which has affected hives around the world since 2006.â¦
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Scientists plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide vital clues on how to fight any future pandemic.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to spot which breast and ovarian cancers are most likely to be fatal.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forests is apparent from a new study published in Science magazine.
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A verdict of accidental death is recorded on a walker with an allergy to bee stings who was stung on his elbow.