Ants change the way they build nests to stop diseases spreading
[ad_1] Black garden ants take steps to stop diseases spreading through the colony Leonid Serebrennikov / Alamy When ants have been exposed to a pathogen,
Cloud atlas of Mars reveals an atmosphere unlike our own
[ad_1] Using images captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have created a cloud atlas of Mars, to better understand the climate
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission blasts off for first civilian spacewalk
[ad_1] Polaris Dawn launch SpaceX SpaceX has launched its Polaris Dawn mission to attempt the first ever civilian spacewalk, and one of the riskiest spacewalks
Astronomers worried by launch of five new super-bright satellites
[ad_1] Five satellites due to launch this week could be brighter than most stars, and astronomers fear the growth of such constellations could have a
Endangered wombat’s rare encounter with echidna caught on camera
[ad_1] A rare and boisterous encounter between a young wombat and a spiny echidna has been caught on camera, to the delight of Australian conservationists.
Most cities are rainier than their surroundings due to heat and smog
[ad_1] Some cities receive more rain than their surroundings Paul Brown / Alamy Urban environments influence the weather, causing many cities around the world to
Nuclear clock: How the most precise timepiece ever could change our view of the cosmos
[ad_1] Ekkehard Peik is a clock-maker. But instead of spending his days looking at tiny cogs and springs through a magnifying glass, the tools of his
Quantum experiment rewrites a century-old chemistry law
[ad_1] A double potential energy well with quantum wave functions on a ladder of different energy levels N. E. Frattini et al. A 135-year-old chemistry
I took control of NASA’s Valkyrie robot and it blew my mind
[ad_1] NASA’s Valkyrie robot, ready to be inhabited through virtual reality James Woodford I am standing before one of the most advanced robots in the
Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed
[ad_1] An eel escapes via a fish’s gills Hasegawa et al./Current Biology Japanese eels try to wriggle back out of the stomachs of fish that