In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, ...

An age-old problem for many parents is how to get kids to eat their vegetables. In an age of hyper-palatable ultra-processed ...

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

By repurposing ancient feeding signals, clonal raider ants coordinate brood care and foraging, offering new insights into the ...

This nocturnal rainforest spider has evolved an unusually specialized hunting strategy, using a silk-powered snare to target ...

OpenScience is an AI workbench for scientific research. You give it a goal, and it works through the research loop the way a ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So ...

The Academy invited 529 new members and potential Oscar voters for 2026, including Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega, Julia Garner and Josh O'Connor.

Predator-prey interactions have created some of the coolest strategies in the animal world. From mesmerizing cuttlefish, to head-popping mosquitoes, the world’s animals have come up with some pretty ...

Researchers have identified a remarkable new arachnid species in Northern Australia, nicknamed "Ballista," that uses extreme biomechanical engineering to hunt dangerous prey.

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above ...