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Driving a car through the scenic highways and byways criss-crossing their way through the countryside can be a messy experience. No, we're not talking about pollution from tailpipes, we're talking about something far more insidious: literally trillions of lives are lost each year by nothing short ...

It's called "local adaptive spatiotemporal smoothing," and birds moths do it, bees do it, even educated fleas dung beetles do it. What it means is that when a dung beetle looks at something, it can ...

Have you ever sat for a couple of hours and just watched ants work? Unless you have a government grant or just no life at all, probably not. They're actually quite fascinating according to The Discovery Channel. They (the ants, not TDC) can carry 10-50 times their own weight, get more done before ...