Our complex relationship with the oceans’ anti-heroes
Ding! The courier hands me an unassuming brown box with “live animals” plastered on the…
Why a leading theory has been branded ‘pseudoscience’
Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness…
From pests to pollutants, keeping schools healthy and clean is no simple task
Parents send their children to school to learn, and they don’t want to worry about…
AI disinformation is a threat to elections − learning to spot Russian, Chinese and Iranian meddling in other countries can help the US prepare for 2024
Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves…
Just 3 Nobel Prizes cover all of science – how research is done today poses a challenge for these prestigious awards
I’ve been primarily an experimental chemist – the kind of person who goes into the…
The first dog-fox hybrid points to the growing risk to wild animals of domestic species
Next time you see a fox when out walking with your dog, pause for a…
A search for links between two of the universe’s most spectacular phenomena has come up empty – for now
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a…
Virtual reality can help emergency services navigate the complexities of real-life crises
The UK has experienced several terrorist attacks, from the 2005 London bombings, to the devastating…
How pregnant women could help us understand why we see faces in inanimate objects
Sometimes we see faces that aren’t really there. You may be looking at the front…
Your microbes live on after you die − a microbiologist explains how your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life
Each human body contains a complex community of trillions of microorganisms that are important for…