Scientists have discovered a new type of 'hell ant' - a species with terrifying spiky mouthparts reinforced with metal and used for drinking the blood of its enemies. Thankfully, these insects have been extinct for a while, but a 98-million-year-old amber…

Early Friday morning (US time), NASA's Cassini probe will meet its doom as it becomes a streak of plutonium-laced fireworks in the clouds of Saturn. The nuclear-powered robot was launched in 1997 to deeply study Saturn and its mysterious collection of moons.…

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has said he thinks of augmented reality as a 'big idea like the smartphone,' which should give you a sense of how important the iPhone maker thinks AR really is. So it's no surprise that analysts are expecting to hear big things…

Viewing fibrils at the nanoscale.

He warns of an HIV epidemic.

The spacecraft Cassini will become a streak of ash when it tumbles into Saturn on Friday. Less than a million miles away, the probe Huygens, which Cassini launched onto Saturn's moon Titan, will be the only evidence of its partner's journey. Huygens is probably…

Peacock spiders keep dancing their way into our hearts. They're tiny, they're colourful, they're fluffy and they have killer moves.

Cassini has been out there hard at work for a long time. The Saturn probe departed Earth in 1997 and spent seven years speeding across the solar system to arrive in orbit around the ringed planet in 2004. For over 13 years, it's been up there collecting data…

It could even make you prone to illness.

For the first time ever, scientists have stored light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip - something the researchers compare to capturing lightning as thunder. While that might sound a little strange, this conversion is critical if we ever…

For the first time, astronomers have observed a fast-rotating star emitting polarised light, a phenomenon that was first predicted over 50 years ago but has eluded our instruments until now. And based on these findings, they have finally confirmed the crazy…

Today's teenagers don't seem to care much about hitting the open road, scoring a six-pack with a fake ID, or asking their peers out on dates. According to a recent study from psychologists Jean Twenge and Heejung Park, teenagers instead prefer to sit at home…

A dig through the literature has uncovered evidence of 27 distinct viruses from a wide variety of families capable of staying intact as they're transmitted through semen to a new host. While not all of the microbes are confirmed sexually transmitted infections…

Wrapping your messages up with quantum weirdness is a great way to avoid sneaky eavesdropping, but in its current form it's more like Morse code than high speed ADSL broadband. That could be set to change with a radical advancement in quantum technology that…

Fast radio bursts are quite the ongoing space mystery. We don't know what they are, and only a couple of dozen sources have ever been detected by radio telescopes. But they may not be as rare as we think - they could be firing off as frequently as once a…

Do you ever have trouble telling right from left? For example you're taking a driving lesson and the instructor asks you to take a left turn and you pause, struggling to think of which way is left. If so, you're not on your own – a significant proportion…

There's a Link Between Chronic Migraines And This Common Jaw Disorder Here's what you need to know. Here Are 7 Places in Our Solar System Most Likely to Harbour Microbial Life Apart from Earth, of course. Scientists Have Designed a Crystalline Type of Aluminium…