Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

allowing a tiny fig wasp queen (Blastophagapsenes) to enter and fertilize the flowers. The wasp is not a necessary part of this process for most varieties of figs, as they are self-pollinators.

Citizen science project ‘Insect Investigators’ takes scientists to regional schools to teach students to track and identify ...

Not just a species, a whole new genus.” “There’s a brand new fig wasp. A tiny, microscopic species. One of the scientists named that one after me,” he laughs. But the most significant ...

Surprisingly, they are also inverted flowers! Because these flowers bloom inside the fig pod, they present a unique challenge: How to pollinate them? Enter the wasps. Female wasps venture inside the ...

The conditions in which The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made were impossibly prohibitive. Rasoulof had to direct the film secretively from afar and, when the shoot was completed, his looming eight ...

Last night's Academy Awards show was a relatively scandal free affair (at least nobody slapped host Conan O'Brien, although we're sure a few people wanted to), but one particular joke did result ...

To her legions of political foes, Weidel serves as a "fig leaf" for a party that has railed against asylum seekers, Islam and multiculturalism and some of whose top figures have voiced revisionist ...