The ancient mammal Adalatherium hui is so weird that it eluded classification for over a decade. A roughly 70-million-year-old skeleton of the species, uncovered in Madagascar in 1999, was clearly a ...

About 130 million years ago, two stars measuring 12 miles across but containing more mass than held in our Sun were locked together. They were spiralling together, in a relatively rare event that ...

LED lasers, quantum weirdness, graphene, and carbon nanotubes top a poll of physicists to see just who will win the science world's top award on Tuesday. The announcement of the winners of the next ...

The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not the reason for which this particular ant is ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

For decades, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to go extinct 66 million years ago. Most sided with the idea that an asteroid had slammed into the oceans off Mexico, triggering tsunamis ...

All over the southern United States, miniature foes are engaging in fierce battle. Invasive "crazy ants" have been displacing fire ants, and a curious defensive strategy may be behind the crazy ants' ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Host David Kestenbaum talks with physicist Robert Ehrlich about his book, Nine Crazy Ideas in Science: A Few Might Even Be True. Ehrlich goes to the edge of science in his book, considering the ...

If you’re a massive sci-fi fan, then you know of some crazy creative science fiction worlds in books. While many science fiction novels take place on a futuristic Earth, or even an Earth-like planet, ...

If you’ve ever been attacked by red imported fire ants, you can likely attest that these tiny insects have a nasty defense mechanism. When threatened, fire ants inject or dab their enemy with a potent ...

If you’re anything like me, doing the dishes is not something you particularly look forward to. Sudsing up your dirty dinner plates might be a daily necessity, but (a few clean freaks aside) it’s ...