The best way to take down a drone is with another drone
14 February 2018
Illegal or unwanted drones put air travellers at risk, so a competition called DroneClash is calling for new ways to tackle them
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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean
14 February 2018
If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal
NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station funding
12 February 2018
President Trump wants to cut back on major NASA projects, including a space telescope to study dark matter and dark energy, and US funding for the space station
Super-accurate atomic clock used in real world for first time
12 February 2018
Atomic clocks are the best timekeepers, but they usually must be kept in a lab to work. Now, they've been used to measure gravity's effect on time in the Alps
Australia’s deadly 1800s storms help us predict future extremes
12 February 2018
Meteorologists cannot currently predict the monster storms that occasionally strike Australia, but decades of newspaper accounts suggest there may be a pattern
Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves
9 February 2018
If gravitational waves – ripples in space time – have a handedness, primordial particles could interact with them to form a dark matter superfluid that spreads through the cosmos
Birds 'dream sing' by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep
9 February 2018
Zebra finches sing during the day, and at night while they sleep their vocal organs act out the motions of singing, a bit like a sleepwalking person
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
9 February 2018
We've never had to deflect an incoming asteroid before it hits Earth, so how do we know the best way to do it? An algorithm says nuclear weapons are the most effective
Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisers
9 February 2018
Alcohol-based hand sanitisers were introduced in hospitals to stop the spread of drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA. Now it seems the bacteria have got the upper hand
Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time
9 February 2018
Human eggs have been removed in their most primitive state and brought to maturity in the lab for the first time, potentially boosting fertility treatments.
