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International plan for a lunar space station may lag behind efforts by private companies.
A new study analysing the outcomes of couple’s therapy shows computers are getting ever closer to determining what we are really think and feel.
New results from Italy and the US help us better estimate the position of the merging black holes that produced the gravitational waves.
Keeping pets is a habit that goes way back into our hunter-gatherer past, and has played an important part in our evolution.
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
Do tablets and smartphones have a place in the toy box?
The chemical formula behind your tears.
New research shows how dinosaurs suppressed their teeth and grew beaks, and then back-shifted this process from adult to embryo stage.
Colour can have surprising effects on us, which we are only now beginning to understand.
The brain processes colour in more ways that just creating visual images – here’s how.
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) could help unravel the mysteries of antimatter and complete scientists’ next model of the universe.
It’s not as dangerous as you might think.
Sir Humphry Davy was the Professor Brian Cox of the 1800s.
High school students can blame ancient India for quadratic equations and calculus.
Turning zero from a punctuation mark into a number paved the way for everything from algebra to algorithms.
New research shows stingless bees will assassinate their queen if she makes the wrong royal match.
Democracy is not just for humans.
Cassini may be gone but the data it left behind could help reveal how long Saturn’s day is and how its magnetic field is generated.
Latest development in ‘Crete feet’ find serves as a reminder of the challenges facing dig sites.
As Cassini’s titanic mission comes to an end, we need to start thinking ahead. A combined mission to explore Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus would be a good place to start.
Rather than castigate those who deny evolution, it is more useful to consider their arguments to help science explain it better
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
Anthill 17: Science by the seaside
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From the man who gave away his genome under open consent, to the 'Mathematikado', this episode of the podcast features highlights from the British Science Festival in Brighton.
It feels like we’ve seen less progress on charge time than almost anything else in smartphones. Could software efficiency be the answer?