Sick ants invite self-sacrifice to save colony, scientists discover: “Hey, come and kill me”
Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from…
Diseased Baby Ants Ask Their Nestmates to Poison Them With Acid to Protect the Colony, Study Finds
New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest…
American man and son die after suffering stings from swarm of wasps ziplining in Laos
BANGKOK — An American man and his teenage son died last month after they were swarmed by wasps…
Handheld Macro Mastery: How to Capture Stunning Close-Ups Without a Tripod
Photographer Chris McGinnis has never taken a macro photograph in the field with a tripod in his entire…
New species of spider discovered in California
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a new species of spider living in the state’s…
Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Reveals the Vastly Unseen — Colossal
Such minuscule details of life may be out of sight, but they’re certainly not out of existence. Back…
Google Has a Bedbug Infestation in Its New York Offices
Google employees working at the company’s Chelsea campus in New York City received a notice on Sunday alerting…
Emergency Butterfly Wing Transplant Is a Success Watched by Millions on Social Media
Sweetbriar Nature Center – via Storyful With a pioneering procedure, a nature center in New York made…
Glimpse Spectacularly Tiny Worlds in Winning Videos from Nikon’s Small World In Motion Competition — Colossal
From a remarkable demonstration of flower self-pollination to algae swimming in a water droplet in a Japanese 50…
Prehistoric insects trapped in amber give glimpse into ancient life on Earth: “Little windows into the past”
Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh…