Kathy White, former Waikato Regional Councillor for nine years and Chair of the council's environmental performance committee ...

A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Celebrate safely this Fourth of July on public lands. CHEYENNE — As Americans celebrate 250 years of freedom this Independence Day, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Wildla ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends well. Believe it or not, there are some species that choose to self-destruct ...

In the diverse world of ant species, there exists a remarkable defender with an extraordinary survival mechanism that seems straight out of science fiction. The Camponotus saundersi, commonly known as ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type appears to protect the body by bursting apart, releasing a lethal chemical ...

A pair of silver tongs reaches for a turkey burger in a frying pan - bestbee/Shutterstock We may not be able to ascertain what went through Gloria Beesley's mind on that fateful day in July 2018 when ...

A Stanford study has uncovered ruptosis, a rapid immune defence in flatworms where specialised cells explode to destroy foreign cells and pathogens.

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In the realm of genetic engineering and biotechnology, the creation of hybrid animals—organisms that combine genetic material from two distinct species—has sparked significant debate. While some view ...