Crickets are known for their loud chirps throughout the summer, and sometimes even in the winter, but did you know they can also help tell the temperature?

Male Hawaiian field crickets typically sing to attract a mate. However, some of these males have evolved a genetic mutation, which means they fall silent, unable to chirp, known as flatwing. While ...

The National Centre for Biological Sciences has found a drastic 25 percent decline in India’s bird population over the last two and a half decades. Such a trend ...

Invasive, aggressive, and destructive, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) is on the rise in the UK. Here's what ...

A woman and her partner had been trying to conceive for some time. It turned out that a rare allergy may have been hindering their attempts.

Those tiny, swarming bugs are mostly harmless, but incredibly annoying. Experts reveal how to avoid gnats and other little flies, and how to protect yourself from the ones that do bite.

“Effects of photosensitization are like a really severe sunburn,” Edwards says. “Livestock owners might see signs of redness, ...

Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared ...

Summer is the ideal time to enjoy the great outdoors, going for strolls or tinkering in the garden. But nothing can ruin a ...

As their name implies, brown recluse spiders are reclusive — Whitworth describes them as shy — and often go unnoticed as they spend their time in places where there is not a lot of human activity, ...

If you’ve played the video game “The Last of Us” or seen the television adaption, then you’ve heard of cordyceps — a “zombie” fungus that infects its host and takes over its body. This leads to the ...

The Conversation introduces research from Tufts University that explains although many people don’t understand fever’s ...