Every spring, a honey bee queen may abandon her hive, taking thousands of workers with her in a swirling cloud. Behind her, a ...

Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Assault Brigade announced the rescue on October 19, describing it as the world’s first evacuation of ...

A tiny amount of metal could be standing between us and practical nuclear fusion. And ironically, it’s the very metal ...

A diorama of some of the earliest animals on Earth. Image via Wiki Commons. An ancient fossil bed in Mongolia preserves tiny ...

Some 2,500 years ago, a Babylonian student took his homework so seriously that he offered it to a god. The student’s name was ...

But the youngest gives a rather strange answer: she loves him like salt on meat. Outraged, the king banishes her. Years later ...

The current contender for the oldest widely cited shipwreck is the approximately 4,200-year-old Dokos site in Greece, ...

Meet Stigmatomma pallipes, a North American Dracula ant that emerges into adulthood ready to hunt, gather food, and care for ...

A rare form of the organic alcohol methanol is present around at least one of the very young stars still embedded within it.

On the small Scottish island of Lismore, history has a way of hiding in plain sight. Granted, the place clearly has a rich ...

People who spent more time in REM sleep had a lower risk of developing 83 different diseases. These included cardiovascular ...

For more than 150 years, scientists believed it was the earliest documented example of a solar storm interfering with human ...