Consciousness is one of the great mysteries of science. We know we have it — we think, feel and experience the world — but ...

The setae are bendy and ultra-flexible, allowing them to follow and stick to the contours of the surface they are on — no ...

The last thing I need in my life is another factory game, if only because allowing any factory game into your life risks it ...

Many personalities and stock characters grazed the panels of The Far Side, but none did it as comedically or as cleverly as ...

“All my life,” he says, “I could remember the smell.” While red wood ants prey mostly on other insects, they also scavenge for food. Here, workers band together to dismember a dead blue ...

Jeff Sebo considers who matters, what matters, and why and skillfully uses science and philosophy to ask us to broaden the ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Aquatic insects are crucial for the health and survival of wetlands such as lakes, rivers and ponds. The need for their ...

I observed a trail of tiny ants in my kitchen. Like us, they seek warmth and shelter during this bitterly cold weather.

• Generally, most pruning of trees and shrubs is best done in late winter. Spring-blooming shrubs should be pruned after ...

This travel probably stimulated his wide geographical knowledge of scale insects. An ant with a mealybug Credit: Alamy In the Navy, Williams took correspondence courses in agriculture. In 1946 he ...

Williams: to any question that did not involve scale insects, his usual answer was ‘I’ll think about it’ ...