For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations. A team of researchers at Princeton and Harvard ran an experiment that found fish don’t swim in diamonds but rather in a dynamic pattern that the researchers call a ladder, where they’re staggered in three dimensions. The finding has implications for both biology and robotics.

A Nagoya University team has overcome one of the key limitations of X-ray technology by making the mirror using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer instead of the usual two-part structure. Using this technique, they changed X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times. This improved dynamic range massively improves both imaging and analysis, improving the efficiency of advanced techniques and massively enhancing workflows.

Abandoned termite mounds are a newly discovered microhabitat for diverse insect groups in both undisturbed rainforest and areas that have been logged in the past.

A new study has revealed for the first time that zooplankton migration contributes significantly to carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean—a process overlooked in climate models.