Feb 20, 2021 12:10 pm UTC| Science
NASAs Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of...
Transparent wood is coming, and it could make an energy-efficient alternative to glass
Feb 12, 2021 08:53 am UTC| Science
Wood is an ancient material humans have been using for millions of years, for the construction of housing, ships and as a source of fuel for burning. Its also a renewable source, and one way to capture excess carbon...
Pigs can play video games, scientists discover
Feb 12, 2021 08:10 am UTC| Science
Pigs might not be able to fly, but they can play video games. In a new study, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana, US have shown that pigs can use a digital screen and joystick, operated by their snout, to move a...
Feb 12, 2021 07:58 am UTC| Nature Science
Water is essential to life as we know it and it seems completely normal to have water all around us. Yet Earth is the only known planet to be covered by oceans. Do we know exactly where its water came from? This is not...
What's the difference between mutations, variants and strains? A guide to COVID terminology
Feb 12, 2021 07:57 am UTC| Science
Living through a global pandemic over the past year has seen all of us expanding our vocabularies. We now understand terms like PPE, social distancing and contact tracing. But just when perhaps we thought we had a...
Feb 08, 2021 13:41 pm UTC| Science
A century ago, an upstart German physicist by the name of Albert Einstein turned the scientific world on its head with his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which proved light to be both a particle and a wave. Awarded...
Feb 02, 2021 13:12 pm UTC| Science
The day a muddled mob stormed the US Capitol building, a team of American researchers published a paper in Nature that signified a landmark in gene therapy. The head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis...