Life
Is life on Earth really at risk? The truth about the extinction crisis
Earth’s biodiversity isn’t just beautiful, it ensures human survival. But to protect nature’s bounty we first need to know exactly how we’re harming it
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Female velvet ants are so scary no other animal dares eat them
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Environment
Bees aren’t just smart, they’re sensitive too
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Environment
Scientists turned a car into a giant flytrap to count insects
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Fighting with a fifth of your body weight on your head
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Flying beetle cyborgs guided with tiny battery-powered backpacks
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To save the insect world we must go way beyond neonicotinoid ban
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The European Union has decided to ban bee-killing pesticides
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Superlight aerogel made by mimicking a baby dragonfly’s wings
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Earth
Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers
A species of tropical ant builds traps on tree trunks that allow them to catch prey almost fifty times their size, by biting their legs and spread-eagling them on the tree surface
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Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate
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Flies cool themselves down by constantly blowing bubbles of spit
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Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other about food
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Waggle-dancing robot tells bees where to look for food
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