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When their bodies are under attack by a fungus, one species of ant chooses food laced with hydrogen peroxide and is more likely to live as a result

Better MRI scanners could result from a trick in which a magnetic field springs up from nowhere, using materials famous for their link to invisibility cloaks

We thought it was part of courtship: birds of prey get entangled, then spiral downwards and may even crash. But it seems it's often anything but romantic

Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents

Glacier melt may be providing significant amounts of silicon to plankton, boosting their population and the amount of carbon dioxide they can soak up

Recent hacks have exposed just how vulnerable everyone's personal data is. New technologies could change the very basis of how companies store our information

Sharing the road with self-driving cars will mean them learning our driving tics and perhaps even adopting some themselves

Yelp, Airbnb and Amazon thrive on customer reviews. No wonder so many tech companies are starting to focus on making them more trustworthy

Women who have miscarried appear less likely to give birth to boys, and inflammation skews the sex ratio further. Low doses of aspirin could restore it

The physics of musical wine glasses gets an update with a glass inside water, instead of water inside a glass