Science

Honeybee colonies organise work without any leader assigning tasks, but scientists have now discovered that specific brain circuits help control this process. (Representational photo) Honeybee colonies work in an organised way even though no bee tells the others what to do. Young bees look after the queen and baby bees, older ones build and guard…

At the June meet-and-greet organised by the GLFC, half a dozen sea lampreys posed for the cameras at the Capitol. One of them even sucked on the palm of Representative Bill Huizenga, as per a CNN report. Among the few things the entire Congress agrees on, this is one: the invasive sea lampreys must go.For…

Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Being copied usually provokes anger. A line widely credited to Nikola Tesla suggests a different reaction entirely. “I don’t care that they stole my idea,” it goes. “I care that they don’t have any of their own.” Rather than focusing on the theft itself, the line shifts attention toward something Tesla…

Cockroaches have a reputation problem. Most people picture them scurrying across a kitchen floor, but that image only applies to a tiny fraction of the group. Earth is home to thousands of cockroach species, and the overwhelming majority live far away from human homes, spread across forests and other natural habitats where they quietly go…

Quote of the day by Michael Faraday (AI-generated image) Genuine understanding rarely arrives without some real effort attached to it. Michael Faraday put that tension plainly. “Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach,” he wrote. Coming from one of the greatest science communicators of his century,…

Scientists have uncovered plastic pollution in one of Earth’s most isolated environments, challenging the long-held belief that the deep ocean remains largely untouched by human activity. Analysing animals living more than 2,000 metres beneath the sea, researchers discovered that 92% contained microplastics, offering some of the clearest evidence yet that plastic waste has reached even…

In 2003, scientists began closely examining how an old hunting technique called fladry could be transformed into a modern, non-lethal tool for reducing conflicts between wolves and livestock. Originally used in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia to guide wolves toward traps, lines of hanging flags were later tested as a way to keep wolves…

They are the size of a football with bright orange bills, long legs, yellow-beady eyes and can fly up to 2,000 miles. While they populate American beaches today, once there was a time when American oystercatchers had been wiped out from New England.By the turn of the 20th century, these birds had gone extinct in…

When it comes to their dear dead ones, many people are always vying for that one last conversation. The one where they can let them know just how much they were loved, how immensely impactful they were to the people in their lives and yes, that they were missed. But what if you could have…

Woodhouse’s toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) (Representational photo, Instagram/Tom Mathies) A rare Woodhouse’s toad has returned to the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly 65 years, giving conservationists fresh hope that wildlife is returning to a restored habitat where the species once lived naturally.The male toad was captured on a trail camera…