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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

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 ...

My family tree doubles at every past ancestor generation and continues branching back into the past. At what point does it reduce in size to reflect the size of the population? (continued) For the UK, ...

How fast the ice melts is by far the biggest influence on the temperature of your cocktail. It takes 334 joules of energy to melt 1 gram of ice, which is about 80 times the energy to raise 1 g of ...

What’s your favourite science-fiction trope? I’m not talking about subgenres like dystopias, space operas or “punks” of every flavour, but the small moments that keep cropping up. Jumping to warp ...