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As the epitome of sociability, the honeybee is a living engine of selfless domesticity, caretaking colonies of kin that have fascinated generations of behaviorists. Like any employee climbing the corporate [...]

The wily prehistoric hunters long considered the first people of the Americas were almost certainly latecomers to the continent, researchers have concluded. For 80 years, scholars were convinced that the [...]

When it comes to memories of infancy, almost everyone draws a blank. Hardly anyone can recall those opening pages of life's story, when the discoveries of early childhood write themselves [...]

SLEIPNER PLATFORM, North Sea Buffeted by crosswinds, the lone helicopter flew on for an hour across the shale-gray waves of the North Sea with no destination in sight. Members of [...]

In one of Asia's most isolated jungles the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea naturalists have discovered a vast unexplored preserve of exotic species new to science. During a 15-day [...]

NEW YORK Exploring the anatomy of attention, researchers have discovered that middle-aged people are more readily driven to distraction by interruptions, due to age-related changes in how their brains work. [...]

Freshly pressed olive oil can ease the pain of living too well - literally - researchers are saying. The throat-stinging squeezings of the pulped olive - the only vegetable oil [...]

NEW YORK - The worst toxic red tide in a generation is contaminating dozens of major shellfish beds in New England, prompting fishery closures from Maine to Nantucket, where clams, [...]

As glaciers from Greenland to Kilimanjaro recede at record rates, the central ice cap of Antarctica has steadily grown for the past 11 years, partially offsetting rising seas due to [...]

In bone blasted from Montana sandstone, fossil hunters for the first time have discovered the microscopic meat of a Tyrannosaurus rex, preserved almost unaltered since the dinosaur died 70 million [...]