Did you know your lipstick might be made from beetles? Or that some cat food may soon be made from flies? All told, trillions of insects are farmed each year across the globe – more than all other ...
Ramses V. Martinez, an assistant professor at Purdue University, and his students created this cover image. Chameleon tongue strikes inspired the team to create soft robots that catch live insects in ...
Using weather radar data, researchers estimated that roughly 100 trillion insects are flying above the United States on a ...
It has been long known chimpanzees are an evolving and smart species, but have they learned how to use their own medicine to treat wounds? One study says they have. Chimpanzees are catching insects ...
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They don’t eat the bugs, and they’re definitely applying them to wounds, so some scientists think the primates may be treating one another’s injuries. By Nicholas Bakalar Chimpanzees design and use ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The schools face up to $30 million in cuts to staff and programs in the upcoming ...