Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember them. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common insect Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) from honeycombs in her ...

Federica Bertocchini at the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research and her colleagues have isolated unique, plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents ...

Each year, humans make some 400 million tonnes of plastic ... But those contained in the saliva of the wax worm moth – Galleria mellonella – can act in only a few hours, the research showed ...

A Spanish biologist and amateur beekeeper may have discovered a way to deal with some of the trillion plastic bags humans use and ... a film of PE was left with wax worms, holes started appearing ...

From bone-eating worms that fed off plesiosaurs to today’s mealworms and maggots that feast on decaying organic matter in the backyard, their diets have moved with the times. The research builds on ...