When I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here comes onto our screens each November, millions across the UK watch through their fingers as the camp mates are forced to eat spiders, mealworms and witchetty grubs. There is a collective shriek as the...
New research by entomologist Samuel Ramsey suggests that for five decades, we may have fundamentally misunderstood one of the greatest threats to honeybees: the Varroa destructor. This menacing name belongs to a species of parasitic mite which lives...
There are no other inhabited environments as harsh, unforgiving and bitterly cold as that of the mysterious tundra of the Arctic circle. Winters are arduously long, with temperatures dropping to -50°C and below. Often, the nearest town or village...
The British Antarctic Survey have revealed that krill populations in the Southern Ocean are shifting towards the Antarctic pole due to climate change. Krill are a fundamental prey species that form a staple part of many marine animals’ diets’...
Researchers have found that people who strongly oppose genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food know the least about the science behind them, but think they know the most. A new study in Nature Human Behaviour tested 501 adults on their...
Photos and videos have gone viral of a group of divers swimming alongside and even touching, a huge great white shark off the south shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Ocean Ramsey, marine biologist and conservation advocate describes the encounter as “beyond...
In November 2018, Nature Communications published several articles about the new work of Steven Trumble and Sascha Usenko. The two scientists from the Baylor University discovered that ear wax plugs in whales store memories about events in world...