From the ingenious to the ridiculous, the direction evolution has taken in creating creatures great and small never fails to...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Kuru, Fatal Familial Insomnia - in what may seem like a list of ruthless and incurable neurodegenerative diseases...
Angelina Chrysanthou backs sugar Sugar is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, dating back to 326 BC. Since then it...
The Ebola outbreak that began in West Africa in March 2014 tapped into the public imagination across the world as...
Biopsy of small bowel showing coeliac disease manifested by blunting of villi, crypt hyperplasia, and lymphocyte infiltration of crypts (from...
"this sport has all the glitz and glamour of Formula 1, but with zero emissions" In an increasingly environmentally conscious...
1. How do spiders walk upside-down? Spiders attach themselves to surfaces via the tiny, flexible hairs at the end of...
This isn’t just a line across a courtyard. This is the prime meridian line, and the home of Greenwich Mean...
Humankind was once dependent on the location of the sun to determine the time of day. With the onset of...
Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate as extinction drivers, such as habitat loss, invasive species and climate change,...
"the faster you travel through space, the slower you experience time... It is simply the way our universe works" Space...
Sundial The sundial is the earliest known timekeeping device. The first known sundial dates to over five thousand years ago,...
"you are probably less safe driving between 4am and 6am than when you are legally drunk" The Latin words circa...
Time. Physicists define it as the fourth dimension. Philosophers claim it as a conception of the mind. Mathematicians simply know...
Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disorder affecting two million people in the UK. It is a persistent disorder of brain...
Turritopsis Dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish The lifespan of all living organisms varies tremendously; some have lifespans measured in hours, some...
Cuckoo, pocket, analogue, digital - clocks and watches come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but all have the...
In H.G. Wells’s 1895 classic, The Time Machine, a Victorian inventor successfully creates a machine that allows him to navigate...
When you look in the mirror, you see a reflection of yourself: your eyes, your hair, your body, all the...
Underneath the surface hubbub of tweets, trolls and the profound musings of Justin Bieber, there lies a dark and mysterious...
Hold the 4th century Lycurgus cup up to the light and watch as it mysteriously morphs from green to red....
America’s Cup victory: Oracle Team USA drop off their hydrofoils as they cross the finish line ahead of Team New...
“Sooner or later, we must expand life beyond our little blue mud ball—or go extinct.” Elon Musk, founder of private...
An American voter sits alone in her living room watching a much-anticipated Obama vs Romney debate on TV. It’s the...
The human body is surprisingly adaptable, but everything has its boundaries. Just how deep is too deep? How cold can...
What would life be like if the slightest touch was excruciating for you to expeience? James Crosland-Mills looks at chronic...
It was just one of their Friday night experiments, nothing out of the ordinary. Then Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov...
“They smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar.” The verdict of one researcher on health risks facing smokers....
From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all species on earth are constantly evolving, albeit some more quickly than...
Just a quick few minutes from Leticia Diamante, who takes a serious look at laughter. Why do we laugh? And...
