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WASHINGTON — Three Wasp-class amphibious warships have suffered mechanical problems at sea in recent months — a pattern that some defense analysts said projects a message to other countries that the U ...

It is wasp season, and if you're thinking there are more than usual this time of year, you're probably right. Wasps are whirring all around the Cincinnati region, diving in your cherry soda and ...

Last August, Niclas Fritzén was on a family holiday in western Finland when, as entomologists like him are prone to do, he decided to search for spiders. He started peeling off the bark from a pine ...

Seirian Sumner receives funding from the UK government's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). She is a Trustee and Fellow ...

Astronomers have spotted signs of an unusual, rainbow-like pattern decorating the surface of WASP-76b, a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet some 637 light-years away. The circular “glory” lights, if confirmed, ...

Bite first, ask questions later. That seems to be the motto of some parasitic fig wasps, which fight indiscriminately inside tiny fig fruits. They even battle wasps of other species that do not ...