It is undeniable that 2024 was a tough year in the fight against climate change, but it is not all doom and gloom. Good news,
The delightfully bizarre golden nugget that is the southern marsupial mole is one of nature’s most cryptic species. It’s rarely seen, not actually a mole,
Nanocrystals have been made that can switch between glowing and darkness fast enough that they could be used in computing. Some of the ingredients used
Winter is here and it can be a difficult time for many wildlife species as they try to find food in the cold. However, if
When researcher and bird expert Jack Dumbacher was mist-netting in New Guinea, his team accidentally caught a lot of hooded pitohui while looking for the
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
