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 ...

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 ...

BATS may have a bad reputation, but like it or not, they are part of our ecosystem and quite extraordinary, being the only mammals capable of true flight. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental ...

As noted by the Department of Agriculture, the reports are merely a “snapshot” in time, and they may not be representative of ...

Paxton Gate in San Francisco is a bizarre boutique filled with rare treasures waiting to be discovered! Welcome to Paxton ...