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There’s something very relaxing about watching a bee busying about its work on a warm summer’s day… the gentle buzz as it meanders from bloom to bloom. However, there’s more at play here than just gar

Clouds of noxious gas, stink bombs and purple smokescreens may sound like schoolboy pranks, but the animal world is just as capable of executing arresting chemical warfare, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

early bumblebee and the four carder bumblebee species have medium-length tongues and feed from thistles, comfrey, flowering currants and alliums. Meanwhile, the short-tongued bees, such as the solitar

By all appearances, Stacy Cronley-Dillon had it all: a successful career as a brand manager for major names like Pepsi and Britvic, a happy marriage, and the kind of driven energy that seemed unstoppa

Yossi Yovel The Genius Bat Understanding our most mysterious mammal 336pp. Oneworld. £20. Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. As for philosophy, so, and more so, for biolo

What doesn’t fuel us, may still be fuel! Did you know that researchers are turning food waste into sustainable plane fuel? With heat and pressure, dinner scraps can be transformed into an oil which in