Your home is crawling with life you can't see. Explore 18 fascinating microscopic beings that live in most houses, from dust mites to strange fungi.

Experts say you should wash your sheets once a week to reduce sweat, dust mites, and allergens—here’s why it matters for cleaner, healthier sleep.

In better news: They're totally treatable and actually pretty common (especially for makeup wearers).

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

Ants trapped in amber reveal possible partnerships and parasites, offering a rare glimpse into ecosystems from nearly 100 ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

Scientists are naming new species after celebrities-and some choices may surprise you.

A new study of amber pieces from the time of the dinosaurs suggests that these perfectly preserved insects can reveal not ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

Q. Getting rid of dust mites helped me with nighttime nasal congestion. Keeping the humidity in the house under 40 percent is important because dust mites like humidity. I also stay away from ...