When the last wasp nibbles on the jam bread in late summer, many people wonder: Where do these creatures actually go in the ...

Parasitism is a common life strategy in the natural world; how they will fare under climate change remains to be seen ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a rare kind of exoplanet in the act of falling apart, revealing a world so light ...

Travis Laurence Naught is many things. He’s a poet. He’s a comic book collector. He’s a witty conversationalist. Those are ...

Each day, we learn of Israel’s theft of yet another slice of Palestine.  Piece by piece, acre by acre, the Palestinian nation has been seized by Israeli ...

Common Mullein Plant Identification “This plant grew in a pot behind my shed. It’s quite large, and the leaves remind me of ...

King Alfred’s Way is Cycling UK’s most popular long-distance route – a bikepacking ‘must do’ of 350km of riding through historic Wessex. Member Mathew Page decided to explore it for himself in spring ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Early birds may get worms, but livestock farmers planning fly control in winter benefit by preventing a population explosion ...

On a fall night, under an outdoor light, a bee stumbles in circles, far from its hive. It cannot fly. Soon, its tormentor reveals itself: a writhing maggot breaks through its neck—killing the bee.