Rice undergraduate Brendan O’Loughlin was taking photos and collecting bugs off live oak trees on campus for one of his professors, Scott Egan, and his research team when something caught his eye. "I ...

There are more than 2 million animal and plant species currently known to science, but in all likelihood, this number is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, a 2011 study published in the journal ...

A new wasp species was discovered on Rice University’s campus in Houston. Photo by Siyi Zhou via Unsplash A student on a Texas university campus made a unique discovery — a creature with a “goldenrod ...