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© Charles Harvey Seven-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) One of the most distinctive and, arguably, the most popular insects in the...
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Andrew Purcell Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Frogs are amphibians, which means 'tail-less', from the Greek an-, meaning 'without' and oura, meaning 'tail'. Formerly,...
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Andrew Purcell White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) You may be aware of species, such as kangaroos for instance, which use saliva...
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Andrew Purcell The Insurance Hypothesis Farming monoculture, such as in this corn field, can lead to decreased net ecosystem CO2...
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Andrew Purcell Increasing average global temperatures are allowing alien species from Mediterranean climates to invade into more northerly areas....
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Andrew Purcell There can be few species on Earth about which more myths exist than piranhas. Piranhas have an...
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Andrew Purcell Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including...
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James Pope If you own cows, don't feed them mouldy beet silage - it could be their last meal....
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Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
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Andrew Purcell Some shocking statistics about the world’s rivers: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of...
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Andrew Purcell Earlier this month, researchers from New Zealand announced that they had observed wasps lifting up ants and carrying...
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Andrew Purcell Given that many Christians will be celebrating Easter this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to use...
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Andrew Purcell Forget cat’s eyes on our roads, now it’s all about the otters. Last week, it was announced that...
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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) There is a paradox in nature conservation, that the efforts taken to protect a species from extinction,...
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5. The ultrasound gun The sonic devastator Imagine the sound of fingernails scraping down a blackboard, then amplify it to...
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Andrew Purcell Ever since French entomologists August Magnan and André Sainte-Lague famously declared that bee flight was aerodynamically impossible, a...
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Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Photo by Andrew Purcell) The Chinese Year of the Tiger came to an end...
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Andrew Purcell Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) Almost a third of butterflies in Europe are in decline and one in ten...
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by Adrian Giordani The Editor of I, Science managed to get hold of Dr. Simon Singh to talk about the...
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by Adrian Giordani What do alien life and pregnancy tests have in common? These concepts seem worlds apart but UK...
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by Adrian Giordani I, Science is back for one more run! And what an issue we have in store for...
