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Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever

Health

Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever

For some people, the symptoms of Lyme disease never go away after treatment. Now we have clues about why this happens, supporting the idea that "chronic Lyme" really does exist

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Do ants bury their dead?

Last Word

Do ants bury their dead?

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Locusts

Environment

Reports of an insect apocalypse are overblown but still concerning

Analysis

Wasps may benefit us as much as bees. Could we learn to love them?

Life

Wasps may benefit us as much as bees. Could we learn to love them?

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E coli bacteria

Life

Bacteria sacrifice themselves when under attack to save their colonies

News

Potter Wasp (Euodynerus foraminatus)

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Wasps

This desert ant can run at the equivalent of 600 kilometres per hour

Life

This desert ant can run at the equivalent of 600 kilometres per hour

Culture

Earliest known cave-dwelling animal is a 99-million-year-old cockroach

Life

Earliest known cave-dwelling animal is a 99-million-year-old cockroach

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Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae

Life

Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae

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Hundreds of millions of locusts are forming swarms bigger than cities

Life

Hundreds of millions of locusts are forming swarms bigger than cities

The worst invasion by desert locusts in decades has hit Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The swarms are destroying crops and could cost millions of dollars to contain

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Environment

Unusual cyclones over past two years created Africa’s locust plague

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Video

Martin Rees: Humanity's future – predictions for the next century

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Life

Ants trapped for years in old Soviet nuclear bunker became cannibals

News

Definition

Lyme disease

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