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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”*…
Philip Ball unpacks the geometric rules that define eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles… How do bees do it? The honeycombs in which they store their amber nectar are marvels of precision engineering,...
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“If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans...
As Lars Chittka explains, insects have surprisingly rich inner lives—a revelation that has wide-ranging ethical implications… In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of...
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“The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee”*…
… But then, what would it be like to be a bee? In the tradition of Thomas Nagel (bats), Peter Godfrey-Smith (octopuses), and Kristin Andrews (crabs), Lars Chittka explores… Understanding the minds of...
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“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you”*…
The wages of anxiety… A large Swedish study has uncovered a paradox about people diagnosed with an excessive fear of serious illness: They tend to die earlier than people who aren’t hypervigilant...
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“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world,...
A polygyne population of red imported fire ants at Brackenridge Field. Austin, Texas, USA. Photo by Alexander Wild E.O. Wilson once observed that “Ants have the most complicated social organization on...
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