In New York’s only federal wilderness area, the loss of a key predator has led to the rise of a new one—with dire consequences for the island’s native birds
Teeth marks seen on the leg bone of a so-called ‘terror bird’, which were predators 13…
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that…
A schoolboy’s chance discovery of the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a…
China, India, and Japan are not the only countries on the Asian continent looking to establish themselves in the fledgling space economy. South Korea also wants to be in the space race, and even plans for a presence beyond Earth’s orbit, with…
You can add another name to the thousands of employees leaving NASA as the Trump administration primes the space agency for a 25 percent budget cut.
On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard…
Today’s spiders spend most of their time on land, scuttling through fields, forests, deserts, and just about every other terrestrial habitat that’s out there. But that doesn’t mean that their ancestors always lived terrestrially.
A new…
How does an ant colony decide who’s fit to become a queen? In most cases, the larger a female ant grows to be, the greater chance it has to be crowned the queen of a colony. In fact, the size of ants governs the entire structure of their…