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A team of biologists, neurologists and chemists at Indiana University has discovered why the velvet ant's sting is so painful ...

The next Virtual Speaker Series from the Penn State Alumni Association will highlight PlantVillage, an AI-enabled "land grant in a phone" that uses ...

Big Island coffee farmers could once again get thousands of dollars in state funds to pay for pesticides to combat a pair of ...

As I rolled the unwieldy 2-foot-diameter log toward the wood splitter, I noticed it was pulpy and rotten in the center. It ...

A group of Gold Coast residents has called in lawyers to mount a possible class action against the state’s “aggressive and ...

In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton are enlisting an unexpected army: ants, bees and beetles.

While honeybees are not native to the United States, we do have 29 varieties of bees that are native to North Florida and ...

Lemon scent is often believed to help deter pests, but how true is that? With the help of an expert, we dive into which hacks ...