Insects don’t have lungs. Their blood-like hemolymph doesn’t carry oxygen. Instead, they take in oxygen through a row of ...

How does a woodpecker keep from getting woodchips in its nostrils?” A woodpecker’s nostrils or nares have stiff feathers around them. These feathers filter out woodchips and sawdust, and lessen ...

Vermin, dirty dishes and poor personal cleanliness — restaurants across the city have dirty secrets they'd rather not share.

How many times were you told not to scratch an itchy rash when you were a kid because you’d only make it worse? Well, it turns out that advice was actually correct and now we know why, according to a ...

New research uncovers the dual nature of scratching an itch; although it can worsen skin inflammation, it can also boost ...

THIS is the terrifying moment hundreds of spiders appear to “rain down” from the sky. Hundreds of eight-legged crawlers seemingly fell from the sky in a bizarre phenomenon which was caught in rare ...

Among the winners of the Close Up Photographer of the Year Awards 2025 was a bear in the forest, two stag beetles in an epic ...

An Oxfordshire food van had a leaking pipe, a cross-contamination risk and incorrectly stored raw meat during a hying inspection.

Using cutting-edge stem cell technology, a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently created a ...

Vibration helps bones to grow. In a new study, Zurich researchers have shown how such mechanical stimuli influence the genes ...