Summer in North Florida means sunshine, thunderstorms — and fire ants. Their mounds seem to appear overnight in lawns, gardens, and along sidewalks, waiting for the unlucky foot that stirs them into ...

Deep in the forests of Borneo lives one of the most extraordinary insects ever discovered: the exploding ant. When its colony comes under attack, this tiny defender does something almost unbelievable.

John Oliver has apparently never been especially comfortable with the tasteful side of Emmy campaigning. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he found a workaround: guns, snakes, tentacles, blood, an ...