Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

I found this online: “While animals are stuck on glue boards, they cry out loudly in pain and have been known to bite through their limbs, attempting to free themselves. Even if found and rescued, ...

Cranes have appeared for the first time at a wetland nature reserve's newest habitat. The National Trust began a £1.8m peat ...

The past few weeks have brought us that frigid air that we all love and appreciate this time of year. Last month’s column, ...

‘Growers now have no viable solution to protect their crop,’ warns NFU ...

My colleague in this column, Janet Parkins, recently wrote about renewable natural gas and its problematic nature as a ...

Leaderboards for few-shot image classification on miniImageNet, tieredImageNet, FC100, and CIFAR-FS. This repository contains an easy and intuitive approach to few-shot NER using most similar ...

Emma Raducanu has revealed she refused to use an antiseptic spray to treat insect bites for fear of failing ... They've usually settled within a few days. But this one niggled for a couple of ...

Hunt has had a few cases of people using all sorts of objects to get the bugs out ... "Once they get in, they actually can't get out because there's often not enough turning room ... Insects are ...

An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a raisin can perform acrobatics and fly for much longer than any previous insect-sized drone without falling apart. For tiny flying robots to ...

Few streaming services provide as much data about the popularity of their shows and movies as Netflix. Not only does it publish a weekly top ten based on the number of views and hours of viewing ...

Some manufacturers have already abandoned Red 3, opting for natural alternatives such as beet juice, carmine (a dye derived from insects), and pigments sourced from purple sweet potato ...