Category: Science & Technology

At just 36.8 hectares (91 acres), Gateway Arch National Park in St Louis, Missouri, is the smallest national park in the United States – but

The “Forbidden Experiment” may have the potential to illuminate fundamental truths about human nature, but it’s so grossly immoral it would send any modern university’s

Godzilla has made something of a comeback in recent years. Ever since he stomped back into Western cinemas in 2014, it seems the monstrous reptile

For exactly 100 years, chemists have considered double bonds impossible – or nearly so – in organic chemistry under specific circumstances. Known as Bredt’s rule,

This Halloween, join us as we explore the spooky science behind the “feeling” of being watched, why wolves howl at the Moon, and how the

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after researchers successfully trained African giant

Voyager 1 continues to amaze. After 47 years, having crossed together with its twin into interstellar space, you’d think the spacecraft would stop surprising us.

The Pineapple Express is a stream of moisture in the atmosphere that delivers humid air from the tropical Pacific to the West Coast of North

If you find yourself facing down the barrel of winter, the good news is you can escape to Asia every Sunday for the next seven

Humans have been burying their dead for millennia, but it’s not the only way we’ve utilized nature to help us transform corpses. In Tibet, birds

Thanks to some inadvertent feline fieldwork, scientists have detailed the first-ever jeilongvirus to be found in the US – and it also happens to be

Ocean worlds, such as Europa around Jupiter and Enceladus around Saturn, are recent and fascinating discoveries. These moons hide, far beneath their icy crusts, a

An almost galaxy merger has been caught looking like a pair of eyes staring back at us from the depths of space. NGC 2207 and

There have been some whopping great animals that have crawled, waddled, flapped, and even swum their way over planet Earth across many thousands of years.

You know, they say that complicated problems require creative solutions, but inventing a never-before-seen type of island and then building it off the coast of

COVID-19 has been overtaken as the deadliest infectious disease on the planet. According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), tuberculosis (TB)

If a monkey was placed before a typewriter and incentivized to hit keys at random it would take it vastly longer than the universe’s anticipated