News

  1. Animals

    A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — may roam Earth

    New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Science & Society

    A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting

    Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird — 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  3. Health & Medicine

    Acetaminophen in pregnancy shows no link to autism or ADHD, again

    Reassuring evidence on acetaminophen’s safety in pregnancy keeps growing, with another study that compares siblings with different prenatal exposures.