The war goes on. In a series of deadly raids day and night, the African Matabele ant sets out from its bunkered nests to hunt its prey: phalanxes of termite soldiers, assembled in number at feeding sites. Many ants don’t make it back alive. Others that do carry terrible injuries, with limbs torn off…
If your Valentines Day isn’t living up to your expectations, don’t worry – researchers are reminding us just how much less romantic things could get through the #AcademicValentines hashtag. The hashtag has gone viral with academics taking to Twitter to celebrate their love for their research… and also highlight some of the not so…
The next time you’re standing in a motel bathroom staring at the previous guest’s hair inside the drain, maybe with a nail file in your hand and a look of nauseous determination on your face, consider: From whence came this hair? What great things might its owner have done, or go on to do? Do…
A new technique for measuring the mass of galaxies has been applied to our closest galactic neighbour – and it has found that the Andromeda galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, and not two to three times bigger as was previously thought. This means, when the two galaxies merge in…
She told doctors that she wanted to breast-feed her baby. She explained that her partner was pregnant but was not planning to breast-feed when the child was born, so she wanted to take it on herself. The 30-year-old, who is transgender, was willing to accept the risks. Following months of hormone therapy last year,…
The Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu has long been marked as a prime candidate to get swallowed up by the ocean as sea levels rise, but new research shows the land mass of the nation is actually expanding. That’s based on aerial photographs and satellite imagery taken of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef…
They say money can’t buy happiness, but let’s be honest, they say a lot of things – and they’re not always right. When it comes to income, scientists say there actually is an ideal yearly amount we can earn to feel emotionally content and satisfied – and believe it or not, if you have too…
Archaeologists in Sweden have unearthed human remains of a type never before found in Scandinavia. The enigmatic Mesolithic bones show evidence of blunt force trauma to several skulls – and evidence that heads were displayed on stakes. But none of it is straightforward, which presents a number of really intriguing mysteries. For one, the bones…