Chemicals in spider silk repel ants
Golden orb web spiders add a chemical to their web silk to prevent ant invasions.
Black hole’s history reconstructed for the first time
Astronomers have produced a complete description of Cygnus X-1’s black hole.
Bacterial suspects can be quickly identified
Researchers will now be able to identify micro-organisms in one minute, thanks to a new research laboratory.
Cane toads could be given a taste of their own medicine
The chemicals released by cane toads could be used to impede their invasion.
Planets smashed to microscopic dust near black holes
The clouds that obscure supermassive black holes could be the result of high speed collisions between planets and asteroids.
Eucalyptus species has nano properties
Eucalyptus macrocarpa is a gold mine for nanotechnology applications.
An Electronic Nose could sniff out tuberculosis
The E-Nose could detect lung cancer, pneumonia and other pulmonary diseases by sniffing a patient’s breath.
Mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous found in South America
The new species would have looked like Scrat, the sabre-toothed squirrel from Ice Age.
