Summertime means it’s time to play ball! But what would it be like to play ball on various locations across our Solar System? Planetary scientist Dr....
We all know the world desperately needs to transition to renewable power sources – but many of us forget we also need to make our energy...
Imagine a Universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our Universe were a finite donut,...
Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn’t a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new...
By now you might have heard the factoid that modern humans share a pretty large chunk of our genomes with bananas. But delving down much deeper,...
Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us the first breathtaking image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy. Now,...
Haruko Obokata published two papers in January 2014 that described how regular blood cells could be turned into pluripotent stem cells. At the time, this was...
There’s nothing quite like crawling into bed, wrapping up in your blankets, and nestling your head into your pillow. But before you get too comfortable, you...
Mysterious strands of DNA that seemingly assimilate genes from many different organisms in their surrounding environment have been discovered in a Californian backyard. Scientists have named...
Shipworms are voracious munchers of wood. For thousands of years, these ‘termites of the sea’ have been sinking ships and collapsing wharves with their insatiable appetites....