Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world’s animal species
Quick facts about insects What they eat: Plants, fruits, nectar, sap and other insects How they reproduce: Sexually, with females…
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Every Version of You review: Sci-fi debut is a brilliant look at a disturbing future
Would you leave a world wilting under a deadly sun for a digital utopia? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Every Version of…
Archaeologist sailed a Viking replica boat for 3 years to discover unknown ancient harbors
A Swedish archaeologist has sailed a replica Viking boat for 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers), which helped him to identify what…
Powerful images capture the fragility and resilience of our planet
A panda keeper does a health check on the cub of giant panda Xi Mei at the Wolong Nature Reserve…
Perseverance rover rolls onto ‘Crocodile’ plateau on Mars to hunt for super-old rocks
NASA‘s Perseverance rover has made to a new region on Mars, which may contain some of the Red Planet’s oldest…
Why the climate crown is ready for China to take – if it wants to
Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Nature abhors a vacuum, and so, too, does geopolitics. With the US under Donald Trump…
‘Our animals are gray wolves’: Colossal didn’t de-extinct dire wolves, chief scientist clarifies
On April 7, the biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences announced it had brought dire wolves back from extinction, explicitly stating it…
Hiking parking costs is a great way to reduce car usage
“We all subsidise car owners, not the other way round.” Simon Dack/Alamy There is a hardware store on my local…
Readers discuss the biology of sex, plastic in the brain and more
It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as female if they make…
Pelican eel: The midnight zone ‘gulper’ with a giant mouth to swallow animals bigger than itself
QUICK FACTS Name: Pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) Where it lives: In tropical and temperate regions of the deep ocean, at…