Bees have been in the media spotlight recently due to their declining populations and the huge implication that their dwindling numbers are having on food produce. Due to this, reports have claimed that beehives are now disappearing at an alarmingly rapid rate, which is largely due to pesticides and mites, as well as climate change.
The video above shows a brown needle that looks like it’s trying to bury itself among some ice-cubes. It is, in fact, the snout of a mosquito, searching for blood vessels in the flesh of a mouse. This footage was captured by Valerie Choumet and colleagues from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, who watched through
It’s August in Australia, and a small, mouse-like creature called an antechinus is busy killing himself through sex. He was a virgin until now, but for two to three weeks, this little lothario goes at it non-stop. He mates with as many females as he can, in violent, frenetic encounters that can each last up
I am sure you would have heard from your ancestors about “How to survive a snake bite..” or, ” How to play dead if you encounter a bear ” or rather, “How to survive in case of animal attacks ” or, “How to survive in case of an emergency”. Well, let’s face it, not all
We usually think of abusive relationships as black eyes and broken noses but abuse isn’t limited to physical traumas. Psychological scars can be just as – if not more – painful and, sadly, any relationship can inflict them, even if you’re dating a teen girl. Signs of an abusive relationship, however, is sometimes hard to
What’s the secret to feeling calm and focused? It’s not an easy question to answer. So, why do Buddhist monks appear peaceful and present all the time? How do they do it? Do they know some hidden secret that you don’t? Actually, yes they do! For thousands of years, Buddhist philosophy has focused solely on
In what is certainly one of the most important stories of the year — in relation to fake news and the conflict in Syria — the father of Omran Daqneesh just voiced his outrage at the exploitation of his son by the mainstream media and the so called White Helmets. The boy’s dad, Mohammed Daqneesh, says Omran had “minor injuries”
Have you ever heard of the Harvard study that ran for 75 years to assess what makes us happy? It’s a revolutionary study in psychology. It followed the lives of two groups of men for over 75 years, and it now follows their Baby Boomer children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to
I loved my grandmother; she was the epitome of grace and patience for me. She loved my siblings and I more than she could ever lover her children. And she did not as much raise her voice at us let alone beating us. Yes, my grandmother was an angel but what this grandmother did to
Just like the scientific discoveries of teflon, the pacemaker, and the microwave, the discovery of a caterpillar that eats plastic was accidental. Biologist Federica Bertocchini was tending to her beehives and used a polyethylene shopping bag to keep out pests like the wax worm, which is also known as the larvae of the moth Galleria