UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

The photos show a world without us and without borders, one of extraordinary beauty in the everyday. A hummingbird is poised ...

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a global hotbed of carnivorous species. Now, scientists have made a ...

“All You Can Eat” is a column by Emerson Prentice ’29 that focuses on highlighting and educating readers about dining on campus by interviewing chefs, highlighting menus from various dining halls and ...

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Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

OTIS — Got a yen for a freshly made Margherita pizza? How about cheesesteak or meatball sandwich? Until snow flies, Rustik Eats is offering just that from its food truck at Paige’s Place on Route 8 in ...

YOU DON'T NEED to study the living world for long to realise that there are exceptions to almost every rule about nature you can think of. Just when you believe you've got it all neatly pigeonholed, ...

Mexico plant to fight screwworm outbreak to be ready in July 2026 Sterile flies are released to stop parasite spread US invests $21 million in screwworm eradication effort US border remains closed to ...

METAPA, Mexico (Reuters) -Deep in the humid lowlands of southern Mexico, engineers, veterinarians and entomologists are racing to repurpose a plant that will play a pivotal role in trying to eradicate ...

The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Saitama, Japan: Plants ...