Look at the nail of your pinky finger. That’s about the width of the biggest known insect egg, which belongs to the earth-borer beetle Bolboleaus hiaticollis. The smallest egg, from the wasp ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We fool ourselves most days. We imagine the Earth to be ours, but it belongs to them. We have barely begun to count ...

Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female ...