psychology An odorless compound emitted by people could make women aggressive and men docile Mark Frauenfelder

bees How to calmly transport an entire bee colony by carrying the Queen in your fist Thom Dunn

Science Sex pheromone named after a character in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" changes mice brains Mark Frauenfelder

gadget Electric fan for your armpits David Pescovitz

autocracy Technocrats help pay for Trump's autocrat military parade Séamus Bellamy

Don't waste money on perfume. Try vabbing instead Jennifer Sandlin

animals Meet the Chinese "vampire" deer Devin Nealy

science fiction Rudy Rucker is Kickstarting his next novel, Juicy Ghosts Mark Frauenfelder

bees Watch Angelina Jolie get swarmed by bees Thom Dunn

animals Chicago unleashes huge army of feral cats to take on the rats David Pescovitz

Delightful Creatures Here are the chemistry stories that delighted the editors of Chemical and Engineering News this year Mark Frauenfelder

ants The science of why some people smell ants Thom Dunn

biology Why humans have so little hair compared to other apes David Pescovitz

Science Some fireflies have a dark side David Pescovitz

the Enternet Do trees really talk to each other? Clive Thompson

books Read: Strategic Dog Patterning, a story from "Why I Hunt Flying Saucers" Hugh AD Spencer

40 of the world's weirdest flowers Nadina Hughes

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari