Superbugs have found a way to alter their genes to make it harder to kill them with alcohol-based hand sanitisers. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

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

We asked a bookmaker for odds on these events occurring in the next 10 years. What would you put money on? A permenant colony on mars Proof of Lmarckian evolution Prof that acupuncturfe woks for pain relief

Smoking rates have been slowly falling in Western countries for decades. Soon, the habit could be wiped out, without even having to ban it. Read full article

Turning off phone notifications for 24 hours amped anxiety, but raised productivity. Two years on, the experience is still helping people call the shots Read full article

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

An algorithm trained on real streets can create realistic-looking imaginary ones, and could one day be used to generate highly realistic video game worlds @newscientist

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

The first humans to cross the ocean from Asia to Australia fashioned jewellery from the bones, teeth and shells of the unfamiliar creatures they discovered on islands along the way. @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