As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In many ecosystems, overall insect activity actually peaks at night, especially ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Australia's east coast has been hammered by weather extremes throughout the last two weeks, with intense winds causing ...

Nestled along the picturesque coast of Maine, Ferry Beach State Park in Saco is a hidden gem that’s been quietly waiting for ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution.

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to determine how the six-legged creatures are responding to a warming world and to ...

The annual competition, organised by the UK’s leading insect science charity, celebrates the skill and creativity of amateur ...

In fact, if you travel to a country where malaria and other diseases are spread by mosquitoes, it is crucial that you take insect repellant ... for you and your family? To narrow the search ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

Proposals likely to see pushback from farming sector, just months after inheritance tax changes to family farms ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...