When we talk about amazing geological features, we often limit ourselves to those on Earth. But as a geologist, I think that’s crazy – there are so many structures on other worlds that can excite and...
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New Technology Can Create Treatment Against Drug-Resistant...
The big idea A new technique my colleagues and I developed that can kill deadly, multidrug-resistant bacteria in real-time could be used to generate targeted therapies that replace traditional...
Time Travel Is Possible – But Only If You Have An Object With...
The concept of time travel has always captured the imagination of physicists and laypersons alike. But is it really possible? Of course, it is. We’re doing it right now, aren’t we? We are all...
When Human Life Begins Is A Question Of Politics – Not Biology
A Texas law that aims to eliminate almost all abortions in the state is part of a long-standing nationwide movement to restrict the right to abortion. The Texas law went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021...
It’s Still Not Fully Understood How Placebos Work – But An...
If you’ve had both of your COVID vaccinations, you may have suffered some side effects – perhaps headaches, fatigue, fever or a sore arm. These effects are mainly caused by your immune system’s...
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: What Do New Results Mean For The...
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, using powerful lasers to produce 1.3 megajoules of energy – about 3% of the energy contained in 1kg of...
We Could Power Households From The Scraps In Our Food Waste Bins...
Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen’s compost bin. That reality might not be so far off with the growth...
Big Bang: How We Are Trying To ‘Listen’ To It – And The New...
Exactly what happened at the beginning of the universe, 14 billion years ago, is one of the greatest mysteries in physics – there’s no simple way to probe it. That’s because, in its early stages, the...
Consciousness: How The Brain Chemical ‘Dopamine’ Plays A Key...
Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious – meaning...
Is Space Infinite? We Asked 5 Experts
We’ve known for some time now our universe is expanding, and in recent years discovered this was happening considerably faster than we’d expected. Yet despite momentous innovations in telescope and...
Germ Theory Denialism Is Alive And Well – And Taking The Nuance...
Back in February 2019, when the pandemic was still far from most people thoughts, the Fox News programme Fox & Friends aired a segment in which contributor Pete Hegseth revealed he had not washed...
Factories Of The Future: We’re Spending Heavily To Give Workers...
“This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his recent speech on “levelling up”. There is still a fair amount of uncertainty about exactly...
Virgin Galactic And Blue Origin: Can They Be More Than ‘Space’...
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was...
‘Cyborg Soil’ Reveals The Secret Microbial Metropolis Beneath...
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies that analyse samples of...
Can Consciousness Be Explained By Quantum Physics? My Research...
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes...
The Truth Is Still Out There: Why The Current UFO Craze May Be A...
It’s safe to say that UFOs, now branded UAPs, are back. In recent years, concerns have grown that supposed physics-defying craft are penetrating US airspace. This could represent a technological...
What Happens When Black Holes Collide With The Most Dense Stars...
For the first time, a faint signal caused by the merging of two almost equally mysterious objects – black holes and a neutron stars – has been recorded on Earth. On January 5 2020, when the world was...
Homo Longi: Extinct Human Species That May Replace Neanderthals...
In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square eye sockets, thick brow...
IQ Tests: Are Humans Getting Smarter?
From the algorithms that make our social media accounts function to the sleep-tracking technology in our smartwatches, the world has never seemed so technologically advanced and developed. This is...
IQ Tests Can’t Measure It, But ‘Cognitive Flexibility’ Is Key To...
IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous...