In a horrific but easy-to-visualise scene, the ants grab its limbs and pull backwards, while the insect struggles in the ...

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For the global financial industry, 2025 will be remembered as a year where technology breakthroughs transform the world of payment, settlement, liquidity and credit. Strategy choices banks, fintechs ...

We speak with the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani, who has just released a new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State. Mamdani, who has taught ...

At first, I was sad to see that the linguist team at the Oxford English Dictionary had picked “rage bait” as the Word of the Year. But there’s no doubt it was the right choice. As the wordsmiths ...

Ant pupae are unable to move, however, so they've developed a unique mechanism that leads them to sacrifice their own life for the betterment of the nest. Researchers in Austria have discovered that ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of ...

Previous words of the year include "podcast," "goblin mode" and "brain rot." The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation ...

Lead is an essential element in car batteries. However, it is expensive to mine and process. Companies therefore prefer the cheaper alternative: recycling. It is this cheaper alternative that YouTube ...

Just six days after its debut on November 18, 2025, Ant Group's LingGuang is already buzzing with over 2 million downloads—proving China's first multimodal AI assistant is no flash in the pan.