Five ways fish are more like humans than you realise
In the animal world, we consider fish quite remote to [...]
Origin of Life: Lightning Strikes May Have Provided Missing Ingredient for Earth’s First Organisms
The origin of life on Earth is one of the [...]
The Way We Teach Science Misses Something Key: Human Context
You will often hear from students that learning science is [...]
Scientists have Found Dust from the Asteroid that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Inside the Crater it Left
The most recent mass extinction event happened 66 million years [...]
RNA Molecules are Masters of Their Own Destiny
An MIT biology professor Richard Young has come up with [...]
Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn
Back in 2007, a group of eminent thinkers and experts [...]
Scientists at Work: New Recordings of Ultrasonic Seal Calls Hint at Sonar-like Abilities
The way sea creatures in general, and sea mammals in [...]
Ideal Glass Would Explain Why Glass Exists at All
Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made [...]
What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves
Micrometeorites land on every corner of Earth. Matthew Genge is [...]
Spider Legs Build Webs Without the Brain’s Help
A recent study has shown that spider legs have “minds [...]