Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.

The Trump administration’s cuts to heat research come at a time when climate change is making extreme heat waves more common and intense.

Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

Interruptions, to-do lists, lack of autonomy — “time poverty” depends more on perceived shortages of time than actual ones, recent research suggests.

The drug enlicitide reduced cholesterol for adults with high levels due to an inherited disorder and may also work for a broader population.

Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates how children learn to process emotions.

Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a market, the Inca then repurposed it for tax collection.

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