Plastic pollution is a growing global menace. Between 2010 and 2020, the global production of plastics increased from 270 million tonnes to…
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The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of…
Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply…
Paleontology is undergoing a new renaissance. Since the mid-20th century, genomics has become the main focus of evolutionary biology. But…
Curdlan is a popular carbohydrate in the food industry. Its name is derived from the word “curdle”, and as it suggests,…
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped…
“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used…
A launch window – the period during which a rocket must be launched to reach its destination – opens on…
It’s been 50 years since humans last visited the Moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between.…
Within just two years, the UK could be home to the planet’s biggest drone superhighway thanks to the plans of a group…