The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

Giant, man-made supersoldiers have made the leap from the realm of science fiction to reality with a little help from an international team of scientists. These chemically induced warriors are quite ...

I thought of a different and more recent parallel - the move from hunting-gathering to farming, on the order of ten thousand years ago. I don't know if it is a hundred percent authenticated, but it ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Meet Dr. Ted Schultz, an entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History. Learn about the creatures that are responsible for processing ...

Ants are famous for their regimented and complex social behaviors. In the tropics, they are also famous for forming mutualisms with plants. Certain species of trees have conspicuous hollow swellings ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ants do not just fall sick and fade away. They actively trigger their own ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later. The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the ...