Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is ...

A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) blistering new Festivus Report 2025 dropped this week, torching Washington for what it says is a ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

As NASA prepares for long-term bases beyond Earth, scientists are turning their attention to some of our planet’s tiniest ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin interacting with modern mutualistic ants until roughly 38 million years ...

From the sugarcane weevil to butterflies, dragonflies, wasps, flies, and aquatic insects, more than 52,000 specimens of high historical and scientific value now have a new home with the reopening of ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the researchers compared beetles allowed to mate freely with groups of the same ...