Some ants defend their colonies with a tactic so extreme it ends in self-destruction. This video explains how “exploding ants ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Scientists studying the way ant colonies defend against disease have discovered a surprising strategy: Young ants who become terminally ill will send out an altruistic "kill me" signal for the worker ...

When Rami Saleh’s porcelain bird is broken, the schoolyard gets on the case in a caper about finding truth, belonging, and safety in a world on fire.

I have said many times here on The Escapist that Hooded Horse is my favorite publisher. They rarely miss a step, they find and publish games that literally always seem to suck away hours of my life, ...

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Some baby ants don’t ask for help when they contract deadly infections — they ask to be killed. Terminally ill worker ant pupae actively emit a “find me and destroy me” chemical signal, prompting ...

A beach on a remote island, and home to nesting turtles, is annually overwhelmed by tonnes of plastic garbage. Christmas Island is doing what it can to help stem the never-ending tide of pollution. A ...