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A box of mounted and labeled iridescent bees.
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Gayle Laird ©2021 California Academy of Sciences
Museum collections hold a wealth of data just waiting to be brought into the digital age.

The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century

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A fly consumes camphor-containing ice cream.

For Fruit Flies, Food Experience Can Alter Taste Preferences
fMRI connectivity results

Research Reveals Brain Connections Underlying Accurate Introspection

New Grant Supports Research on Infectious Disease Transmission

New Tool for Studying Membrane Protein Structure

Plant Specimens Go Digital
Aaron Blackwell

Dueling Infections: One Keeps the Other at Bay, Say UCSB Anthropologists

Study Examines Heavy Metal Pollutant Levels at Oil Platforms

The Bitter and the Sweet: Fruit Flies Reveal an Interaction Between the Two

Moving Toward Sustainable Transportation By Simulating, Analyzing Daily Life

Corpse Flower Blooms and Causes a Big Stink

A Squid (and Octopus) of a Different Color

Rare Corpse Flower (Titan Arum) to Bloom at Biology Greenhouse
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