View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Using a technique called “DNA origami,” researchers created traps that encase large viruses—such as SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, and Zika—in hopes of ...

Although more than 85 countries have banned or heavily restricted the use of steel-jaw leghold traps, the United States—one of the world’s largest fur producing and consuming nations—continues to ...

One of the largest of all carnivorous plants, it grows 1.5 metres tall and produces pitchers that are 30 centimetres in diameter - and it's capable of digesting rodents. Carnivorous plants use a ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with vanilla, clove, wintergreen and eucalyptus up into the tree canopy, hoping to ...