Lately, I’ve been fantasising about rest. In music theory, such a brief moment of pause in the middle of a melody is symbolised by a rectangular block ...

Les Delices, the Baroque chamber music ensemble, embarks on a remarkable week of education, a stretch of concerts and other ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

As if stealing the new queen's throne wasn't enough, these parasitic ants trick the workers into killing their own queen.

Scientists document a new form of host manipulation where an invading, parasitic ant queen "tricks" ant workers into killing ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Waiting in line outside Jackson Ski Touring last Saturday, I could sense the winter excitement in the air. There were no conversations about biking, running or swimming. The tide had ...

A sneaky spray of chemicals makes ant workers turn on their own mother — the queen — so a parasitic invader can take over the ...