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Have you ever heard a haddock knock? What about a cusk eel’s chatter? Sound travels four-a... more

Ever wondered how your teenage years shaped the person you are today? Or why certain rebel... more

With so many new TV series and documentaries available, it can be tough to decide what's t... more

Quantum theory describes the tiny building blocks that make up everything around us. It ha... more

What if we told you plants can hear and see? And memorise information? And track time to a... more

Despite humans having never set foot on Mars, scientists have been working for decades to ... more

We like to think of science and medicine as unbiased, unaffected by social constructs. But... more

If (or maybe when) we find alien life in the universe, will it look like us? As telescopes... more

From Dune to The Three Body Problem, is science fiction having a moment? Attention to the ... more

How do we understand the stakes of climate change, and communicate them? As we’re facing t... more

How much faith should we be putting in artificial intelligence? As large language models a... more

Half of the human population undergoes the menstrual cycle for a significant proportion of... more

Fish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat... more

There’s no moon like our moon. A celestial body twinned with Earth, the moon guides the ti... more