This tiny spider uses city lights to become an efficient urban predatorA minuscule spider, Pikelinia floydmuraria, is revolutionizing predator behavior studies by hunting prey significantly larger than itself. ...
08 May, 2026, 11.51 AM IST
Why Your Bat House Might Not Fix Mosquitoes the Way You ThinkBat houses offer shelter for bats, a vital role in conservation efforts. While bats do eat insects, including mosquitoes, this is not a gua...
05 May, 2026, 06.33 PM IST
Why mosquitoes bite some people more and easy prevention tipsMosquitoes, particularly Aedes aegypti, are drawn to humans by a combination of visual cues like dark colours and chemical signals such as ...
25 Mar, 2026, 06.35 PM IST
Why Thousands of Bats Took Over a Bridge in Austin… And Why the City Let Them StayA bridge renovation in Austin, Texas, unintentionally created a perfect home for bats. What was once a cause for concern has become a celeb...
18 Mar, 2026, 11.01 AM IST
Why Do Certain Rivers Glow Blue at Night?Rivers and coastal lagoons worldwide emit an electric blue glow after sunset, a phenomenon caused by bioluminescent dinoflagellates. These ...
02 Mar, 2026, 04.08 PM IST
Christian Horner leaves Red Bull after 20 years: What was the controversy surrounding him?Christian Horner has been sacked by Red Bull after 20 years as team principal. Horner has been in charge of Red Bull since the team was for...
09 Jul, 2025, 05.56 PM IST
Dengue mosquito is a much smarter predator than thought, it uses a stealth mode to hunt humans even without smell, study findsAedes aegypti mosquitoes, known for spreading diseases, exhibit remarkable adaptability by using heat detection when their sense of smell i...
23 Jun, 2025, 03.44 PM IST
Assessing Donald Trump's send-off for Elon MuskPresident Trump praised Elon Musk as his cost-cutting role ended, though many savings claims were exaggerated or misleading. Trump and Musk...
31 May, 2025, 09.30 AM IST
Loyal dog detects woman’s cancer days before doctor's diagnosis. Do dogs have a sixth sense?A Pennsylvania woman, Breanna Bortner, credits her dog, Mochi, for detecting her aggressive breast cancer before she even suspected anythin...
14 Mar, 2025, 05.22 PM IST
US man dies five years after mosquito bite caused a deadly infection: The full storyA Connecticut man, Richard Pawulski, succumbed to complications from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) five years after a mosquito bite. Th...
17 Oct, 2024, 05.56 PM IST
EEE, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis: New York reports first case; how deadly is the disease; is it curable?The Eastern Equine Encephalitis, which is a mosquito-borne virus, was first detected in Ulster country. New York has reported its first cas...
24 Sep, 2024, 12.30 AM IST
Fossils of 130-yr-million male mosquitoes found in LebanonThe two fossilized mosquitoes, both representing the same extinct species, are similar in size and appearance to modern mosquitoes, though ...
06 Dec, 2023, 08.00 PM IST
The world of fireflies: Unraveling the secrets of their bioluminescenceThe firefly, a bioluminescent beetle, has caught the attention of entomologists seeking to understand the diversity and ecology of this fas...
30 Jul, 2023, 09.54 AM IST
IndiGo asks its staff to tone downIndiGo last month was at the centre of a row over a mosquito-related incident. Also last year, a video of its staffers manhandling a flyer ...
14 May, 2018, 02.27 PM IST