In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...

Slugs become increasingly prevalent during autumn months as they thrive in damp conditions and amongst lots of fallen foliage, yet there exists a simple method to banish them for good. Experts ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Police in Germany were called to an apartment building on a report of someone repeatedly ringing doorbells late at night and discovered the ding-dong-ditch culprit was a slug.

One Indiana homeowner recently got quite the shock when she noticed a few unexpected, slimy visitors in her home. Melissa Clark told Storyful that her husband had noticed something on the floor of ...

A research team from the University of Basel, Switzerland, has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: under the influence of light, it stores two positive and two negative charges ...

A widespread species of sea slug was found living in water with high human impacts, and it may have medicinal qualities. Zen Summer via Unsplash Where do medications come from? Aspirin was derived ...

The natural world is filled with extraordinary organisms that have evolved unique survival strategies, but can any animal truly live on just air and light? This question touches on fundamental ...

Terrestrial plants drove an increase in global photosynthesis between 2003 and 2021, a trend partially offset by a weak decline in photosynthesis—the process of using sunlight to make food—among ...

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