Surgeons were stunned when a routine brain biopsy revealed a living, 80mm predator thriving inside a patient’s frontal lobe.

A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both workers and males, consisting ...

Medical experts explain the rise in non-malarial fevers, attributing it to better testing and historical misdiagnosis. Learn ...

Ticks have long suffered a poor reputation in the world of bloodsucking creatures, and often for good reason. They carry ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

Can students be on the front lines of conservation? A new Canada-wide study, published in Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, suggests they can. The efforts of some 5,000 students produced data detailed ...

A pore smaller than one nanometer reads peptide sequences amino acid by amino acid, pinpointing single-site Alzheimer's ...

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

A new study of amber pieces from the time of the dinosaurs suggests that these perfectly preserved insects can reveal not ...