A review of existing research suggests that compounds in honey bee venom may help destroy breast cancer cells, slow tumour growth, and limit cancer spread. However, most findings come from laboratory ...

A honey badger bitten by a venomous snake can stagger, collapse, and appear dead within minutes, only to shake off the paralysis and resume eating the very snake that bit it. That resilience, paired ...

New research is showing what makes honeybee stings an effective, self-driving weapon. High speed cameras reveal how the stinger uses a double-piston that pumps up and down to drive it deeper while ...

Macquarie University and PNAS study reveal autonomous micro‑pump mechanism in a 2 mm bee stinger High-speed video (300 frames per second) showing a side view of a honey bee stinger injecting venom ...