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An international team are setting off to study a mysterious area of the ocean that has been concealed for thousands of years. Read more: ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Matabele ants often lose limbs in battles with termites, and their nestmates not only carry the injured ants home, they lick their wounds as if to clean them. Read more: ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

Magnetic cells can be used to rebuild damaged tissue after a heart attack, research in mice suggests Read full article

Once defamed as slow and stupid, sloths are now recognised as masterworks of evolution – and we could all learn from their energy-saving tricks Read full article

Study of yellow warblers across North America suggests birds may be better able to adapt to global warming if their genes favour exploring newer, more hospitable habitats @newscientist

A new bitcoin Ponzi scheme or scam pops up almost every day Read Full Article

This year’s flu jab is working, but not working well – throwing a spotlight on the commercial and other factors that prevent us developing something better @newscientist

Two robots borrow techniques from both inchworms and geckos to climb up walls while carrying huge loads

A supportive exoskeleton improves gait of children with cerebral palsy This is just amazing! Thank you Science

Zika can cause babies to be born with severe brain damage – but we may be able to harness the virus to fight brain tumours in adults

There is little to love about wasps: they sting unprovoked and they don’t do anything ‘useful’. They are the gangsters of the insect world. This talk will make you think differently about the most maligned

Scientists explain why some tropical leaves are huge, while temperate ones are tiny @newscientist

A soft-bodied robot that swims like a manta ray has been engineered to spy on underwater creatures without disturbing them.

The Event Horizon Telescope will take images of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, and could reveal how relativity and quantum mechanics mesh. @newscientist

Gene-edited seedless tomatoes don’t need pollinating to produce fruit – which could come in useful at a time when bees are on the decline @newscientist

Fusing living cells with our best light-harvesting technology could lead to cyborg factories for clean energy and new compounds. And not just on Earth. @newscientist

Maths helps us comprehend the incredible complexity of the universe, but are we born with the ability to calculate, or did we invent it? @newscientist

One kind of buccaneering ant carries its wounded nestmates home – so they can live to fight another day. @newscientist