Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working
The more experienced bees in a colony sometimes run around the honeycomb drumming with their bodies - which seems to energise younger colony members
Banning straws isn’t enough. We must get serious about climate change
To head off climate disaster requires difficult changes to our lifestyles, says Adam Corner, and politicians must not be afraid to say so
Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet – and now we know how
The mantis shrimp has an incredibly fast punch, and it’s because of a structure called a saddle that stores energy and then releases it like an archer's bow
Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
Recording the electrical activity of the fine branches of human neurons has revealed that our brain cells are much more sophisticated than those of other animals
Your genes affect which university you go to but that’s no surprise
A study has found links between a person's genes and university. But intelligence and other complex traits are shaped by both genetics and environment
The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to blast off to Mercury
On 20 October, the BepiColombo spacecraft will begin a 7-year journey to Mercury, where it will orbit and investigate the many mysteries of Mercury
Pregnancy changes how hundreds of genes work in a woman’s body
Genes that alter their expression during healthy pregnancies have been identified for the first time, potentially helping us to predict at-risk pregnancies
Why plans to achieve zero suicides might actually be counterproductive
Health bodies and politicians are aiming for zero suicides, but doctors are warning this ambitious goal is simply unrealistic
World’s oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks
In 2016, researchers unveiled 3.7-billion-year-old fossils – a reassessment suggests the ‘fossils’ are actually physical scars left when the rocks were deformed
Cosmic supercluster is largest object ever seen in the early universe
A gigantic supercluster of galaxies that existed just two billion years after the big bang could tell us how much dark matter was around in the early universe