Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy…
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The big idea A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks…
We all have to make hard decisions from time to time. The hardest of my life was whether or not…
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from…
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same…
Hundreds of kilometres from shore, and covering two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, the high seas are a world that few…
Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot.…
Volcanic eruptions cannot be predicted with 100 per cent certainty. However, details about an upcoming eruption can be estimated using…
At first glance, it’s hard to see what gold, iron, lead, arsenic, silver, platinum and tin have in common. A…