Baboons can recognise words
Baboons have no linguistic skills, but they can spot printed words. Over a period of 45 days, a team of scientists from the US and France studied a group of baboons living in…
Black flies exist for a reason
These irritating creatures could be the key to preventing the diseases they spread.
Japanese honeybees cook their enemies
Irritating bees is never a good idea, especially not if they can kill their enemies with their body heat.
‘Robosquirrel’ helps scientists understand rattlesnakes
When adult squirrels come face-to-face with a rattlesnake, they approach it head-first in an elongated posture, making flagging movements with their tails, but when squirrels want to fend of rattlesnakes, they heat their…
Picky females promote diversity
Women are genetically designed to be picky — particularly with their men.
Common pesticides are indirectly killing bees
Sublethal doses affect bees by impairing their ability to find their way home.
Tiny predators unleashed
Water fleas (Daphnia dentifera) are evolving. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that water fleas allow outbreaks of the virulent yeast parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata to improve their chances of survival. After the outbreak, the host…
