University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Baobabs aren’t supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources have announced appointments to the newly created Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force. The Ponderosa ...

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While gel polish and acrylic extensions have had their time in the spotlight, it’s about time that dip powder nails got the same attention. If you’re one to get caught up scrolling through Instagram’s ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on their doorstep. However, that is exactly what happened when a research team ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The goldspotted oak borer has been detected in Ventura County, the northernmost known frontier of the ...

Sexual selection, which can create diverse speciation as males develop attributes in competition with other males, can change the course of evolution. A 40-year-long experiment analyzed the sexual ...

It’s the family business that makes Blue Beetle both a DCEU novelty and a comfy streaming watch. Its bustling, chatty dialogue scenes are reminiscent of Ms. Marvel, the most creatively successful of ...

If you’ve been seeing spots and smelling something odd, chances are, these bugs have been inviting themselves into your home. At first glance, they look like a cute ladybug, but get too close and they ...