Science communicators need to stop telling everybody the universe is a meaningless void
The scientific worldview has made great contributions to humanity’s flourishing. But, as science advances into…
What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two…
COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips
In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation…
How your money is helping subsidise sexism in academia – and what you can do about it
It’s frightening to imagine where the world would be right now without mRNA vaccines. The…
How AI ‘sees’ the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty
To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people…
Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from radiation, but it can move, and the magnetic poles can even flip
The Earth’s magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and…
Stones inside fish ears mark time like tree rings – and now they’re helping us learn about climate change
As a marine biologist, I’ve always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt…
What is the ‘sunk cost fallacy’? Is it ever a good thing?
Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like…
5 ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world
Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world…
Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why
Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century…