Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another ...

Termites are notorious for the way they affect wood, eating their way into spaces that didn't previously exist. They convert the cellulose in wood to give their bodies nourishment. “In nature, ...

Not so long ago the only things that came in a bottle ofalcohol (beside the alcohol itself) were the occasional odds and ends that fell in as it was being made, orsome fruit that was deliberately ...

Have you ever looked into an old tree cavity and seen large ants? You are likely looking at carpenter ants. Carpenter ants, unlike termites, do not eat wood. They hollow out wood to make their nests.

In the U.S., all commercial brands of yogurt taste really similar because they're made pretty much the same way, using only two industrial bacterial starters. But this wasn't always the case, says ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published scientific article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant diseases, ...

(1) Previous work on interactions between F. rufa and some canopy herbivores is briefly reviewed. (2) In limestone woodland in N. England, populations of defoliators (illustrated by the Winter Moth, ...

About 1,000 northern hairy wood ants are expected to have tiny radio tags, about 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) long, attached to their bodies, allowing researchers to track their movements on a protected ...

Red wood ant mounds on an earthquake fault in Germany. Ants with the world's worst taste in real estate seem to sense earthquakes before they strike, according to research presented today (April 11) ...

A new study expanded on a seemingly impossible scenario in which wood ants survived while trapped for years in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Poland. The wooded area around the former Soviet ...