Defense mechanisms are rooted in Freud’s theory of personality.According to his model, the mind has three dueling forces: the id (unconscious and primitive urges for food, comfort, and sex), the ...

Neocapritermes taracua termites carry a life-ending enzyme that, when mixed with another compound during attacks, produces a ...

Maize (corn) is one of the most important staple crops in the world and has been extensively studied. Yet, many aspects of ...

Recent research has revealed that a family of proteins called COI1, previously associated with defense mechanisms in other plant species like Arabidopsis and rice, primarily regulates growth in maize ...

Tomatoes, a staple crop worldwide, are increasingly threatened by biotic stressors such as viruses, fungi, and bacteria, with ...

Tarantulas are one of nature’s most infamous creatures. Their hairy bodies are repulsive, and the sight of them never fails ...

The researchers suggest that the dense hair covering tarantulas may have in fact evolved as a defense mechanism against these predatory ants. A recently published article studies the mutually ...

Hence, Türkiye's engagement with the EU is vital for the stability of the West and the defense of Western core ... the proposal of activating a UN-led mechanism. Uncertainties and Türkiye's ...

Yellow jackets are especially active as summer wanes Have you recently experienced a sensation you’d describe as “hot and smoky, almost irreverent,” as if W.C. Fields was “extinguishing a cigar on ...

The Minsk agreements were meant to silence the guns in Ukraine’s east. Yet Moscow shattered its promise of peace the moment ...