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 ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

When Rami Saleh’s porcelain bird is broken, the schoolyard gets on the case in a caper about finding truth, belonging, and ...

Susanne: In our book, we introduce the audience to the behavior and evolution of many different ants, from the agriculturist leaf-cutters, over herders who tend aphids, to the fierce army ants, and to ...

Teams don’t grow when their competition is facile; they grow when mountainous challenges are presented. No. 14 Tiger Style didn’t go through an easy 2025 portion of its season, and the first test of ...

Scientists describe the behavior as "altruistic signalling," a form of social immunity in eusocial insects Getty A new research study finds infected ant pupae emit a chemical signal that prompts ...

Three University of Arizona professors have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their scientific research. Regents’ Professor Malcolm Hughes of the UA’s ...

Most of the 9.7 million soldiers who perished in WWI were killed by the conflict's unprecedented firepower. Many survivors experienced acute trauma. Hulton Archive / Getty Images In September 1914, at ...