A new study out of the University of Arizona is trying to answer an age-old question
Photos


This carpenter ant says ‘Happy Halloween’
Planet

The extreme close-up recently won a runners-up prize in the Nikon Small World microphotography competition


Meet the gamma-ray burst that is the B.O.A.T.
Science and Tech

That’s “brightest of all time” to you!


Pan Solo is an out-of-this-world mother-daughter creation
Weird Zone

This incredible ‘bread sculpture’ recreates the iconic moment from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back


Glittering skin dino mummy is changing how we view fossils
History

Named Dakota, this Edmontosaurus fossil has skin that wasn’t preserved in the way that paleontologists thought it had to be


This binary star’s dust halo acts like tree rings
Science and Tech

Thanks to the new James Webb Space Telescope, we’re seeing this rare phenomenon in great detail