Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly dangerous problem affecting global health. In 2019 alone, ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Palladium is widely used in various industries and everyday products, including smartphones, semiconductor manufacturing ...

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office uses a microscopic amount of gold in a Vacuum Metal Deposition Chamber to uncover ...

Encapsulated microbubbles (EMBs) are vital in ultrasound imaging and emerging drug-delivery technologies. To analyze their ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in Japan, said in a statement. “For many years I have been fascinated by plants ...

As anti-poaching techniques have improved over the years, poachers have increasingly used technology to evade detection by ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...