Essential aviation life raft features include buoyancy redundancy (dual chambers/tubes or inflatable floors), robust stability (adequate ballast bags), and effective boarding aids (multi-rung ladders ...

Fire ants are a textbook example of collective behavior, capable of behaving as individuals and also banding together to form floating rafts in response to flooding. Now, a pair of mechanical ...

Fire ants can survive floods by linking their bodies together to form large floating rafts. Now researchers at Georgia Tech have demonstrated that fire ants can actively sense changes in forces acting ...

Unfinished Business is NME’s column about the weird and wonderful world of Early Access Games. This week, Rick Lane sails the oceans of an apocalyptic world in Raft. As the title suggests, Raft puts ...