Few geological mysteries are as perplexing as the ‘Great Unconformity‘ riddle at the Grand Canyon: More than a billion years...
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There’s something strange about the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon: It brightens up as it approaches the Sun, despite not having...
We know that Earth’s magnetic field is always shifting in its direction and its strength. Just how quickly these changes...
The sexbots are coming – or rather, they’re already here, and they’re becoming ever more sophisticated and life-like. That means...
When exploring alien worlds, it’s important to know exactly what you’re looking at – and a fresh analysis of rock...
The latest climate change report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes for grim reading: our planet...
The antique violins made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri in the 17th and 18th centuries are still very much...
The strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic field has changed a lot over the millennia. Scientists are eager to study...
Can you remember what you had for dinner last Tuesday? Or on this day last year? It turns out that...
We know that metabolism – the rate that we burn calories to keep our bodies running – changes as we...
Ultra-processed foods now make up more than two-thirds of the calories consumed in the diets of young people in the...
The enteric nervous system (ENS) in our gut operates a lot like other neural networks in the brain and the...