It’s hard to think of a less popular insect than the yellowjacket, maligned because they can sting. First, I should be clear that “yellowjacket” is an imprecise, generic common name that conceals a ...

They are real all right. They are called the fly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria. It would be very dangerous indeed to eat ...

The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...

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A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, ...

Mimicry in animals is a common form of protection from predators. For instance, two distasteful or toxic butterflies may ...

Reginald Mungomery, an Australian entomologist, was apparently untroubled by this episode when, in 1935, he imported toxic ...

If Donald Trump’s narrow win shook the United States in 2016, the scale of his victory now has amazed the country into ...

Scientists say that alcohol has been in the natural world for millions of years: "moderate ethanol intake is associated with ...

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This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you ...

After Wasp’s powerful take on Demi Lovato’s “Skyscraper ... Visual clues included a game of poker and a bottle of poison. In Episode 3, the Buffalos revealed that they had a fourth member of their ...