When you walk through the gates of the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, you enter a living pharmacy. But instead of finding shelves with bottles, you’ll find beds of plants with intriguing signs...
If you watched the summer blockbuster Dunkirk, you may have been left with the same question as one of our readers: what is sea foam and why was there so much of it at Dunkirk?
You know how we (humans) have eyeballs? Well, owls don’t. They have eye tubes or cylinders, rod-shaped eyes that do not move in their sockets as eyeballs do. Instead, owls have to move their bodies...
Why not? Because you risk being sprayed with a hot solution containing irritant chemicals known as benzoquinones. In all likelihood it would be a memorable, but unhappy experience. Based on their...
Several species of ants have a special symbiotic relationship with aphids- they farm them! Aphids feed primarily on the sap from plants and secrete a liquid called honeydew. This secretion is very...
While the odd Beatle has been known to get drunk, generally beetles are tee-totallers. But not the cetonia beetles of Northern Africa. These inch long bugs have a particular penchant for eating...
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