A chain of weaver ants can easily outpull just about any other creature, pound for pound, making them one of the most formidable teams in the animal kingdom. Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina), which ...

Three massive black holes have been discovered in a galaxy located in the early universe, 12.5 billion light years away. This has left astronomers surprised that such a complex system could have ...

Tim Winton's Juice gave Alison Flood the appetite for more post-apocalyptic science fiction. Returning to Cormac McCarthy's scorched landscape was tough – but worth it ...

OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society – it's time to take back control of the narrative ...

Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the ...

In an election, how can you make sure that everyone's votes are counted but also kept entirely secret? Quantum mechanics may ...

Running with a pram or stroller might make parents less susceptible to ankle pain and injuries to their calf muscles, foot arches and Achilles tendons. A survey of parents suggests there is a 37 per ...

Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft might still be able to save NASA’s ailing Swift telescope from doom, despite a significant mishap ...

Watch as a total solar eclipse sweeps across parts of Europe and the Atlantic ocean as the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking out sunlight. Parts of the US and Africa, along with the ...

A new approach to breast augmentation injects fat from elsewhere in the body into dissolvable scaffolds shaped like bra cups, which may lead to a more natural look and fewer complications ...

The moon moves away as it receives angular momentum around the Earth-moon centre of gravity, and that angular momentum comes from Earth, so Earth is slowing down. That is the main reason why we need ...

At a gathering of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society in a pub in 2008, caver Charlie Self handed PhD student Gina Moseley a photograph of a cave in a limestone cliff just beyond the ...