A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

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

Some baby ants don’t ask for help when they contract deadly infections — they ask to be killed. Terminally ill worker ant pupae actively emit a “find me and destroy me” chemical signal, prompting ...

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 ...