A United Airlines flight from Cancún was briefly delayed after a swarm of bees landed on the plane's wing. The airline confirmed the incident and stated the flight departed safely after the issue was ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

This illustration shows magnetic activity in an exoplanet that is a gas giant like Jupiter but orbits very close to its host star and is tidally locked (European Southern Observatory) Astronomers have ...

If you’re sleeping enough, moving your body and still hitting a wall by mid-afternoon, your home lighting might be the variable you haven’t thought to check. Here’s a plain-language breakdown of what ...

A viral video of a meteor darting past an erupting Philippine volcano sent the internet into an alien frenzy after an unknown object was seen rising from the earth after impact — but a renowned ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...

The woman, who is a beekeeper, was sentenced to six months after being convicted of using the bees as a weapon against deputies during a 2022 eviction. By Adeel Hassan The sheriff’s deputies were ...

Noah Hawley, the man behind Fargo, the upcoming Far Cry TV adaptation, and Alien: Earth has revealed that Season 2 of the science fiction show is close to beginning to film at Pinewood Studios in ...

A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees, according to a new study. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest, the researchers ...

North America's bee populations are in trouble, but don't blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should change what we think about one of the world’s most important animals. A ...