Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the November/December 2025 print edition of QA magazine under the headline “Defeat the Dirty Dozen.” In the modern food manufacturing and storage ...

The marine biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea is nowadays facing substantial structural changes in flora and fauna. Such changes were observed in the Adriatic Sea as well. During the last few ...

The Tugela River is a breeding ground for the lobotes, or Triple-tail. Photo: Stock image. It is once again that time of year when the curious lobote fish enters North Coast waters. This strange fish, ...

Tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, is a cosmopolitan widely distributed marine species. It appears also in the Mediterranean Sea, having rather Atlantic origin, but is characterized as a very rare fish ...

The vagrant American Black Tern in Northumberland has paired up with a male Arctic Tern and is currently sitting on eggs, marking a most unlikely case of hybridisation between the two species.

The research project "Advances in the treatment of snakebite accidents: pre-clinical and clinical studies, alternative treatments and decentralisation of the distribution of antivenoms to remote areas ...

Scientists have linked these pests to serious food-borne viruses, making it imperative that households maintain high levels of hygiene. Scientists say that cockroaches could be helping to spread ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark published a paper “Transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the gut microbiome of gregarious cockroaches: the importance of interaction between ...

Jerry looks at who’s living in your compost heap – which is the engine room of any great garden. Compost turns green waste into the most valuable garden material you could ever wish for. Jerry makes ...

While Easter weekend was calm, allowing anglers four days of good fishing, this was not the case the weekend past. It was pretty windy and looking at the horizon on Sunday morning, a big swell could ...

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