Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close inspection did researchers realize something far more unsettling was preserved with ...

Advanced alien civilizations might not be whispering across the cosmos with radio waves at all, but instead flickering like ...

Being a child actor can be tough, but these young stars became grown up actors (and filmmakers) who ended up landing an Oscar ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

New research shows invasive species are reducing insect populations worldwide and weakening ecosystems people rely on.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...