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ENGLAND’S hospitals are being battered by a resurgence of mutant flu and winter bugs after Christmas. Surveillance programmes ...

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Female rice weevils lay eggs when the rice is in the fields. First they use their snouts to make tiny hole in the rice grain, lay an egg inside and seal the hole with their secretion, making them ...

Leafhoppers, insects smaller than your thumbnail, have been mastering the art of staying hidden for millions of years. They coat themselves with microscopic particles that work like nature’s own ...