Thermal controls within the sealed payload kept the chamber near 30 °C, allowing the pupa to complete metamorphosis. The ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...

An international team led by researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and ...

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have shown that dung beetles suffer in canopy openings that have been deliberately created to promote biodiversity. Rising temperatures are significantly ...

This world-leading Aussie researcher, expert legal witness and media commentator is forging new frontiers in forensic science ...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to severe bleeding and organ failure. Scientists are now using Wolbachia, a ...

I don’t know whether my life would have turned out differently if I had more access to science at an early age. Nevertheless, ...

At the same time, not all spiders (or parts of spiders) elicit the same disgust. Among the photo selections were sets that ...

Engineered wax moth larvae may become a fast, low-cost way to study infections and screen new drugs before testing in mammals ...

“This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies,” said Arjan Mann of the Field Museum in Chicago, a co-lead author of the study. “It shows that experimentation with herbivory ...

Thorne, who wrote Adolescence, is once more exploring the boundaries between civilisation and chaos, and Marc Munden, the ...