Plans to move one of the world's premier natural history collections into new state-of-the-art premises are being resisted by researchers, who say that the relocation will hurt their ability to do ...

Researchers who saved a collection containing about 200,000 creepy crawlers from destruction hope the specimens can be used to uncover the impacts of climate change on the critter's evolution. Decades ...

A fund set up by STRI staff scientist Annette Aiello intends to provide long-term funding for the preservation and management of the insect collection at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in ...

Your News story “Curators bugged by museum's vision for insect collection” (Nature 432, 659; 2004) gave the impression that Darwin Centre II (DCII) will be incompatible with a ‘cyber-infrastructure’ ...

Entomologists at an insect collection in country New South Wales have a party trick they like to play. Visitors are given a pair of 3D glasses and asked to first close one eye and then the other while ...

Here’s why the invasive Asian giant hornet’s identification is actually a scientific success story. Abigail Eisenstadt The Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia, can grow up to two inches long and is a ...

LEGO Ideas sets are produced for a limited time, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. As retirement approaches, inventory typically becomes more limited, restocks slow down, and secondary market ...

There are so many insects in the world it’s impossible to comprehend their actual numbers. There are just too many of them! Even if you could picture how many are out there you wouldn’t want to. Their ...