No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar, a common garden pest, can actually detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team of faculty and graduate students ...

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Discover the goliath stick insect, one of the largest insects on Earth. Learn about what makes them true forest giants.

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When we flush our toilets, we create “toilet plumes” that spread far and wide, spreading all sorts of germs into the toilet ...

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

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When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of nature’s most astonishing feats take place at a scale often smaller than a ...

The first long-term bubble barrier was installed in Amsterdam's Westerdok canal in 2019. The Grand River in Lansing could be getting the first bubble barrier in the United States. Credit: The Great ...