Environment
Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium
There are a terrifying number of ways to be unsafe, as a look through the April archives of Â鶹´«Ã½ shows
Regulars
Environment
GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature
News
Environment
Beetlemania: How a supergroup scuttled to world domination
Features
Environment
Beetlemania: Five amazing beetles from around the world
Features
Environment
Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR
News
Environment
Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant’s cries for help
News
Environment
Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves
News
Earth
Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies
News
Earth
Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females
News
Environment
Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean
If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal
News
Earth
Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach
News
Earth
The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing
News
Environment
Smell of death tells undertaker bees it’s time to remove corpses
News
Life
How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests
News