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biology

Ants use tools to collect honey

Life

Ants craft tiny sponges to dip into honey and carry it home

Non-expandable stomachs mean these ants need to use absorbent tools to transport tasty liquids to their nests – and they figure out the best objects for the job

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A newly hatches leatherback turtle beside some broken eggs

Earth

Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts

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Glow-worm cave

Life

Cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey

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Rob Deaville

Life

When a whale gets stranded, I get the call

Features

caribou

Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

Features

Red deer on Rum in Scotland

Life

First evidence that wild mammals benefit from bigger brains

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

Life

Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

Life

Fish rapidly adapt to pollution thousands of times lethal levels

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Cat watches white mouse emerge from hole in the wall

Life

Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety

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Mosquito fish

Life

Longer ‘penis’ drives evolution of bigger brains in female fish

Experiments that grew mosquito fish with longer sperm-delivery organs led to females with larger brains – possibly to better avoid male harassment

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Health

Super-you: The mutant powers you get from outsider genes

Features

Life

Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions

Features

Life

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Life

Bees of the sea: Tiny crustaceans pollinate underwater plants

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