Do you know someone who, from the moment they open their mouth, you know you’re about to be taken on a captivating ride through some
One of the most prolific meteor showers of the year peaks immediately in January. Tomorrow, Saturday 4, the Quadrantids will peak with an expected 25
This week on Break It Down: one of the most significant mammal recoveries ever recorded (and four other wildlife wins), a once-in-a-lifetime event is about
When a quarry worker in Oxfordshire, England, noticed some “unusual bumps” beneath the site’s clay surface, he could never have dreamt that he was in
A party trick performed using fruit in a microwave oven could lead to more sensitive detectors of microwave radiation, with applications in fields such as
Academic math, you’d probably assume, is a kind of dry topic, filled with tedious equations and the like. Not so, if a new paper is
Welcome to True Crime in Science. Over six episodes, we have discussed some well-known true crime cases, as well as some cases you may not have
For a long time, archaeologists interpreted the many bones of small carnivores they found in early Neolithic settlements in the Levant as coming from fur
For thousands of years, thinkers argued about whether light is made of particles or waves. At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists realized it
The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks
While there may be no magic number for minutes of exercise a day to keep us all healthy, new research has found that people who
It’s now a quarter of a century since Y2K, which means we’re well into the futuristic age imagined by the science-fiction writers of the 19th
This year – 2025 – marks the beginning of a new generation. All kids born from now until 2039 will be branded as Generation Beta,
Identifying individuals of wild, free-roaming animals is a tricky and time-consuming task. Visually confirming this is also more difficult for species that live elusive lives,
After invasive rats caused their disappearance from the island of Kamaka over a century ago, Polynesian storm-petrels have now been spotted returning to the area,
Deep beneath the Yellowstone Supervolcano, reservoirs brimming with explosive magma are hinting that future bouts of volcanism may now be more likely in the northeast
On New Year’s Day, 1925, attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of all time. It proved the Andromeda
