A new study by NASA scientists suggests that the ‘roughness’ of the Moon‘s surface, and its accompanying shadows, could be a...
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Many fears around transitioning our societies towards a more climate-friendly future understandably revolve around job losses. While it’s true that...
By now you might have heard the factoid that modern humans share a pretty large chunk of our genomes with...
Our guts are fabulous places, filled with a myriad of microbes. These tiny life forms help us with everything from fermenting...
Deep in the tissues of sea anemones, corals, and jellyfish are strange yellow cells which are genetically distinct from the...
In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and islands we see today,...
It sounds a bit like the start of a joke – what brings together 14,000 scientists and 1,990 jurisdictions in...
In early 2020, a time that feels like five lifetimes ago, a small Italian town called Vo’ was battling a...
Although we might think of ourselves as far removed from blobby green algae, we’re not really that different. An algae...
Sometimes unhelpful (or just plain wrong) health advice sticks in our brains. For example, you don’t necessarily need to drink...
It’s easy to get distracted – whether you’re daydreaming about a special someone while you should be working, or completely...
One of the best studied plants in science is a small, unassuming weed. Thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, is a model...