21 Feb 2018

Science commentator Kathy Campbell

From Nine To Noon, 11:52 am on 21 February 2018

New research shows ants take the injured back to the nest and treat them, and sometimes the non-injured fake their injuries to try to get carried off the battlefield; penguin feathers and shells track environmental changes in Antarctic; and an ultra-precise atomic clock the size of a four-slice toaster is set to zip into outer space this summer.

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