In an attempt to better understand exactly what happens as a bee grows from an egg into an adult insect, photographer Anand Varma teamed up with the bee lab at UC Davis to film the first three weeks of a bee's life in unprecedented detail, all condensed into a 60-second clip. The video above

Most would rather not think about it, but that breakdown gives birth to new life.

How one psychologist is tackling human biases in science.

He doesn't worry about his kids using drugs -- he worries about the cops killing them for it.

There has always been an odd tenor to discussions among climate scientists, policy wonks, and politicians, a passive-aggressive quality, and I think it can be traced to the fact that everyone involved has to dance around the obvious truth, at risk of losing their status and influence. The obvious truth about global warming is this...

A team of Canadian scientists has found a way to break the barrier of the human body that keeps the nervous and circulatory systems apart, and inject the drugs directly into the brain using “carrier” antibodies. That system known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the human skull from any microbes or chemicals, thus keeping the brain clean.

In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History.

How do great artists create? Listen to them try to explain and you'll probably be disappointed.

A change to New Zealand law has recognised what pet owners and scientists have known for years - that animals have feelings. The Animal Welfare Amendment Bill, which passed its final reading on Tuesday, states that animals, like humans, are "sentient" beings. "To say that animals are sentient is to state explicitly that they can experience both positive and negative emotions, including pain and distress," said Dr Virginia Williams, chair of the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee.

Other fish, like tuna, have only a limited form of warm-bloodedness.

New research suggests galaxies are strangled to death by some sort of internal mechanism - slowly robbed of their star-forming gases.

Astronomers have been arguing over just how many spiral arms our Galaxy exhibits. Is the Milky Way a four or two-armed spiral galaxy?

Last May, a member of Alberta’s rat patrol paid a visit to a farm on the outskirts of Sibbald, a small town near the Saskatchewan border. He found holes bored into the foundation of a grain silo...

From smartphone apps that can do seemingly everything to driverless cars and eerily humanlike robots, the past decade has seen dramatic advances in science and technology. What amazing advances are we likely to see in the next 10 years?

Though it never went into series production, the wedge-shaped coupe was a hugely influential product, as a new exhibition proves.

Try this Idaho Sunrise (Baked Eggs & Bacon In Potato Bowls) recipe today!

Beautiful Chemistry is a project collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University Press. The goal of this project is to bring the beauty of chemistry to the general public through digital media and technology.

L. Ron Hubbard called her a bitch, the FBI found files on her in its raids: The story of Scientology's most famous critic.

German researchers have developed a flexible electric car.

Your genes may influence how sensitive you are to emotional information, according to new research by a neuroscientist. The study found that carriers of a certain genetic variation perceived positive and negative images more vividly, and had heightened activity in certain brain regions.

The urban poor in the United States are experiencing accelerated aging at the cellular level, and chronic stress linked both to income level and racial-ethnic identity is driving this physiological deterioration.

The scientific consensus around Alzheimer's disease says it's caused by proteins called beta-amyloids that build up on the brain and destroy its normal functions. But one man, Duke professor Allen Roses, has made it his mission to prove that the conventional wisdom is wrong.

It’s widely believed that lemmings commit mass suicide by leaping to their deaths from cliffs. In fact, this is a myth brought about by the nature of lemmings’ mass migration and bizarrely popularized by a Disney movie from the 50s. But are other animals capable of intentionally killing themselves? Do animals even understand mortality? The issue has divided commenters over the years, so we’ve asked animal behaviour experts, biologists and animal rights activists to find out the truth.

Our universe seems real, but is it really? As humans get better at simulating artificial intelligence, it seems at least plausible that we could create life that is both conscious and has free will. And if we can create conscious life, who's to say that the universe, as we know it, wasn't created by superintelligent artificial intelligence who wanted to simulate their past?

What if one day you heard from some nameless representative at Microsoft, and they told you that you were no longer allowed to use any of their products or services? No more Office, no more Windows, and for that matter no Xbox or Minecraft. Or what if Google forbade you from using any of its services? It gets tougher, doesn’t it?

The decision vindicates his contention that the NSA's metadata collection program is unlawful. (May 7, 2015)

This video will change the way you look at pigeons.

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?