When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ “ball” involves a full-body engineering trick designed to protect them from ...

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As a bookish child with a distant father and a disapproving mother, the Curious Incident author retreated into a world of his own. Looking back, he asks what it means to lose parents who never showed ...

Woodpeckers are natural pest controllers that can help your garden thrive, and they're easy to attract as long as you know what they like to eat ...

Not many gardeners realise that woodpeckers are really useful to have in your garden, and there is a really easy way to get them to flock to a birdfeeder.

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have created a new type of insect cyborg that can navigate autonomously -- without wires, surgery, or stress-inducing electrical shocks. The system uses a small ultraviolet (UV) light helmet to steer ...

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