I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

If you’ve gotten a new Arizona ID in the last two years, you’re carrying a coyote and a scorpion in your pocket.

Scorpions have poor eyesight and use a neat trick to avoid being eaten themselves. They cast an eerie greenish, yellow glow under UV light. Scientists believe that under UV light, their whole body ...

Scorpions have been doing quite nicely, thank you, since they left their yard-long ancestors in the sea 350 million years ago. Cannibals that also care for their young, they are found in caves at ...