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The issue highlights how weaver ants engineer spherical leaf nests and use silk to glue structures, then explores the Tara Polar Station that locks into Arctic sea ice to study the frozen ecosystem and climate change. It also reviews research on mangrove forests, explaining their habitats, coastal protection role, and recovery growth rates since 2010.","Science Nature  \nMAKING SENSE OF THE UNIVERSE AUGUST 2026. ISSUE 103  \nGet outside and go wild with a camera this summer p10  \nSeeyour winning photo on the front cover £2,500 worth of Canon camera gear up for grabs  \non nature  \nWIN!  \nFocus  \nWORLD?  \nWHAT IN THE  \nCan you guess what this is? Answer on page 50.  \nCLUE:  \nBe careful when out and about, these natural needles pack a nasty sting.  \nALEX HYDE/NATURE PICTURE L IBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY  \n2 Science Nature Issue 103  \nANIMALS AND NATURE  \nWOW!  \nWeaver ants can lift weights that are 100 times heavier than their bodies. That’s like you picking up two family cars.  \n4 Science Nature Issue 103  \nAMAZING ANTS  \nTHIRSTY WORK  \nA tiny weaver ant stretches up to drink from a water droplet. This photo was taken by macro-photographer Tran The Ngoc in a forest near his home in Vietnam. Weaver ants are found in tropical forests in parts of Asia, Africa and Australia. They are master architects. Instead of digging underground nests, weaver ants build a spherical house out of leaves high in trees. Working parties of ants link together to create a“living chain” to pull leaves into place. They then use the sticky, liquid silk produced by their young (larvae) as a glue to stick the leaves together. One weaver nest measures about 50 centimetres long, but a colony can build networks of hundreds of nests, housing half a million ants.  \nTRANTHE NGOC/TWOPOINTO MEDIA  \nIssue 103 Science Nature 5  \nThat's  \nThe best discoveries, inventions and surprises  \nDrifting science station sets sail for the North Pole  \nMAÉVA BARDY/ FONDATION TARA OCEAN  \nThe Tara Polar Station will trap itself in ice to learn more about climate change.  \nIn July, while most of Europe will be trying to keep cool, They will stay there for eight months. Most of the time, the  \na team of scientists in France will be packing their station will drift across the ocean with the ice sheet, until the  \nwarmest clothes. They are heading to the Arctic Ocean on ice begins to thaw again and they set sail back to France. a new research vessel, which will study the frozen ecosystem As well as being built to withstand Arctic ice, the station (a community of living things and their environment) is built to do amazing Arctic science. There are onboard labsand how it is being affected by climate change. and Tara has a hole underneath it. This creates a  \nClimate change refers to long-term changes in “moon pool” in the centre of the station, which  \nworld weather patterns, including rising DID YOU allows scientists to send a little submarine out  \ntemperatures. Human activities, such as KNOW? under the thick ice, or even dive in themselves  \nburnfarmngng snsdiutig(ooonifol arnedstgs, aasr, a The Tara Polar Station is wearing spScientiecstakl sunosoerkyelietptlmouwarmt the . major cause of climate change. able to withstand extreme Arctic Ocean in the winter, because it is  \nThe vessel is the £29 million Tara Polar temperatures as low usually too cold for people to stay and study Station, sometimes called the International as-52°C. for very long. However, the Tara Polar Station  \nSpace Station for the North Pole. It looks more like a spaceship than a boat, because it is built  \nto sail deep into the Arctic and then get locked in the sea ice. The pressure from the ice would crush a normal ship, but the rounder shape of the Tara – rather than the usual streamlined shape that helps boats move through the water easily – means it can survive being squeezed.  \nBy the middle of September, the Tara station and its 12 scientists will be stuck fast in the frozen Arctic Ocean with the ice piling up around it and getting thicker and thicker.  \nwill allow scientists to visit the Arctic over the  \nnext 20 years to understand how the region is changing. 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