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Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.

Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.

To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.

Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.

It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It’s not unchallengeable. And it’s more than facts alone.

First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.

“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.

Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.

With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?

There is no one prehistoric meal plan.

Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.

It’s time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.

All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.

Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.

The Universe begins with negligible amounts of angular momentum, which is always conserved. So why do planets, stars, and galaxies all spin?

Declining bee populations could lead to increased food insecurity and economic losses in the billions.

France is split in two by its very own “desert,” the Empty Diagonal. The area’s depopulation is fairly recent, and Paris is to blame.

Death is the great and terrifying unknown, awaiting us all at the end of this life. Giving it a personality makes it easier to gaze upon.

Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.

If we lose our pollinators, we’ll soon lose everything else.

Synchronous movement seems to help us form cohesive groups by shifting our thinking from “me” to “we.”

Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.

An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.

New research identifies 16 different COVID-19 personality types and the lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.

Mosquitoes can taste your blood using unique sensory abilities. Can we use that to keep them off us?

It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.

Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.