Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music, and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

Opening lecturer Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Nobel Conference stood at the podium, dwarfed by the session’s graphics, a large dragonfly cradling Earth. It suited her words.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school—they are putting them on the map and even ...

Insect feces and exoskeletons can make agriculture more sustainable and produce less waste, scientists say. By Sabrina Imbler Insects excrete, just as we do, but their feces have a more pleasing name: ...

The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

Researchers from the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project had been studying the same group of chimpanzees for 7 years. However, it wasn’t until 2019 that Alessandra Mascaro, a volunteer at the project, noticed a ...

Andy G Howe receives funding from the Australian Government, Queensland Government and Forest & Wood Products Australia. Since 2019, he is active with CSIRO Stem Professionals in Schools. Erinn ...