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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?
The current push towards AI categorisation of people is in danger of embedding a binary view of society.
Colin Smith became the first person to donate his genomic data to the Personal Genome Project UK under ‘open consent’ – waiving rights to anonymity.
The way we talk about cyberspace may make us more vulnerable to hacking.
Baby’s brains have special activity to help them develop – now researchers have found where some of this happens.
Despite not being able to see them, we know a fair bit about our exoplanet neighbours.
The scale from one to five that is used to measure the destructive power of a hurricane may no longer be enough.
Help us put this old wives’ tale to a scientific test.
Solving the P vs NP problem is one of mathematics’ most intractable puzzles, and there’s US$1m prize money for the first to do so.
Space weather can impact life on Earth.
It is possible to turn a fear of death into a motivational tool.
Parents’ DNA try to manipulate one another in a bid to shape junior in their mould.
It’s not all plain sailing when it comes to autonomous ships – they could make accidents at sea more severe and even end up being more expensive to run.
Experts are intrigued by 5.7m-year-old footprints from Crete but argue we cannot yet know for sure whether they come from a human ancestor.