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As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health issues we face today aren't personal failings or ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant queen, and spray a chemical to trigger matricide, i.e ...

In a first, scientists believe they have confirmed we have another sense - a "remote touch" that we share with others in the animal kingdom, like some shorebird species that can sense pray beneath sand without seeing or touching it first.

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the deep-sea super-worm that detoxifies arsenic by ...

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea surface. Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in contrast to the majority of jellyfish that drift ...

You won't find us endorsing aggression towards animals very often, however, scientists have discovered that raising your voice to seagulls - especially if you're male - will make them think twice about stealing your food. It's simply science.

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive undertaking that will dramatically enhance our understanding of biology, and inform conservation and biodiversity restoration efforts.

Don't be fooled by that soft-looking down and pretty faces - woodpeckers are tough, tree-pounding beasts who simultaneous harden their whole bodies like a hammer and grunt as they drill away with force of up to 30 times their weight.

Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery - a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters (1,000 sq ft), dense enough to resemble a living ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists. Now, researchers have advanced their breakthrough theory - and it could help us design materials that can respond to the ...