A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

Humanoid robots are all over social media, doing everything from dancing to serving drinks. But are they really going to show ...

Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. A new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the ...

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts. Plus, we revisit some of our ...

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It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on black holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts that had our audience wondering.

The following is an excerpt from The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister. The hirsute form of the male chocolate midge, Forcipomyia sp., which is essential for cocoa pollination. The pin obscures ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is just the third known object to visit us from outside our solar system. So yes... we'll be talking about aliens.

"Cutaway of Bernal Sphere Habitat," by Rick Guidice, 1976. This colony is comprised of two large spheres. The interior sphere rotates twice per minute to create gravity similar to that on Earth, while ...

In 2015, artist Ani Liu heard two sentences that changed her entire approach to art: “Digital is dead. Bio is the new digital.” Those words, spoken at a welcome talk on her first day as a grad student ...