Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are ...

Primerdesign (part of the Novacyt Group), a company focused on the design, manufacture, validation and supply of nucleic acid ...

The Art Colony Walking Tour brochure they hand out at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art explains things succinctly. “Since the 1890s,” it reads, “Ogunquit has been a destination for artists who ...

A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It spans about 111 meters (364 feet) ...

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Houston-based waste and recycling company WM has closed its Natura PCR film recycling operation in Waller, Texas, at least for now. The operation, which consists of five buildings on a 150-acre campus ...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A team of researchers believes they may have cracked one of America's most enduring legends: Where did the settlers of the Roanoke Colony go? The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the ...

Annika Norlin’s novel, “The Colony,” follows a group of misfits in a bucolic forest. The only thing its members share is a dark past. By Joumana Khatib Joumana Khatib is an editor at the Book Review.

Burnout’s nothing new. Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.” The smartphone may then have been unimaginable — Alexander Graham ...