Want to get your kids interested in the Earth without spending big bucks? Think small. Like ant-size small. For the price of a couple of dollar-store jars (or for free if you reuse jelly or pasta ...

I don’t know if others in my generation, when we were kids, landed one of those Milton Bradley Ant Farms like I did and actually tended to it long enough to see a “society” emerge. It may be I was ...

The American Museum of Natural History is unveiling an enormous new exhibit of leafcutter ants. Making it happen was no picnic. A leafcutter ant carrying a flower petal inside a new exhibit in the ...