Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
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Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Instead of liberation, the sexual revolution has led some people, particularly men, to be addicted to porn.
Of the world’s 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.
Our bodies crave more food if we haven’t had enough protein, and this can lead to a vicious cycle.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
Scientists turn to nature to improve a ubiquitous building material.
Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.
The “island rule” hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant’s pain.
If we lose our pollinators, we’ll soon lose everything else.
As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
A virtuous diet isn’t strictly vegan.
Social conflicts can leave molecular marks on animals, according to recent research on the ant species Harpegnathos saltator.
A new snake becomes Instagram famous after its accidental discovery by a graduate student going on a nature walk in northern India.
It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
These enormous centipedes are straight out of science fiction.
Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.