The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Whereas humans have one receptor on their tongues that can detect all sorts of sweet things, from real sugar to artificial sweeteners like aspartame, insects have many receptors that each detect ...

All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one pair of ...

For decades, the internet has had a language problem. Its architecture, its logic, its defaults have been shaped by many dominant tongues, and everyone else was left to adapt. In Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...