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

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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

Some years after he had swallowed a snake’s raw gall bladder “for a dare”, a man named Li, from Hunan, China, started getting optical disturbances in the form of a “mosaic like thing” appearing in his

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