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