Category: Science & Technology

We’ve all been there: you wake up one morning, the sun is shining; you open your mouth to greet the world and out comes a

There’s nowhere on Earth quite like the Atacama Desert. Literally: it exists in a basically unique meteorological void, rendering it all but devoid of water

The Moon was volcanically active for a long time, but if we look at its mysterious far side, we now know exactly how long that

Vast amounts of money and brainpower in the effort to achieve sustained, controlled, nuclear fusion. Many designs have been proposed, and even tried, but tokamaks

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Kimchi, kefir, kombucha – fermented foods aren’t new, but now you can find them everywhere. Sure, more people could be catching on to how delicious

Have you ever felt that snow only seems to fall in certain places? Perhaps you missed out on snow days as a kid, while your

While most of us will have heard of gray wolves – and the political rollercoaster that is their protection status in the US – they

It might sound far-fetched, but recent research suggests that dogs’ and humans’ brains synchronise when they look at each other. This research, conducted by researchers

Like all beautiful things, the Mediterranean Sea isn’t going to be around forever. As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates crash together in super slow

This week, Ice Age Amazonian rock art has been interpreted and appears to depict shamans spiritually transforming into animals, a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub has been

What will you take away? When choosing the best scientific event to attend each year, people shouldn’t just look at the list of exhibitors and

Fraud might be a crime, but it’s hard to deny it inspires some creativity – and in the case of an alleged insurance fraud scheme

A rare deep-sea shark has been caught off the coast of Albania exhibiting an unusual skin pigment disorder that has turned it ghostly white. It

If you’ve ever shared a bed with someone who grinds their teeth in their sleep, you’ll be familiar with the unmistakable and unsettling sound of

The recent death of a red panda kit at Edinburgh Zoo has prompted fresh calls for tighter restrictions on fireworks in the UK, after veterinary

The fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered by accident in the Italian Alps. Dating to