A man who took a DNA test expecting to learn about his ancestry got far more than he bargained for when the results led to a ...

Storing the objects in cat food overnight made them appetizing to longhorn crazy ants ( Paratrechina longicornis ), which were placed inside laser-cut mazes of varying sizes and difficulties. In each ...

Ants live in highly organized colonies and cooperate daily to tackle a wide range of problems. Their striking group behaviors ...

Bianca Stanciu has built a career on a weird flex: making statistics feel like a text from your smartest friend. The Bianca ...

But from the perspective of research mathematicians, and especially young people who are pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics, ...

An old diesel fuel experiment puts a powerful engine to the test as the effects of aged fuel are explored. Follow the process ...

A few years ago, psychologist Sherman Lee experienced a "grief attack". When he set out to study them, he discovered just how ...

Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.

A piece of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, lost in space for a year, is now set to crash into the Moon. While it's an accident, ...

Ridley Scott’s divisive $403 million sci-fi epic Prometheus has become a worldwide streaming hit 14 years after its release.

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A “gray zone” form of living could help scientists answer long-held questions about regeneration, aging, and how tissues ...