It's A Slug's Game

Sea slugs sport some of nature’s most unreal adaptations, including solar-powered skin and disposable penises. Welcome to their weird world…

Beat The Burnout

How science can help you get the better of pandemic fatigue

Why Is There A Hurricane Season?

What causes hurricanes?

Diners Enjoy World's First Restaurant Meal Made From Lab-Grown Meat

Singapore-based restaurant served up real chicken that didn’t require the slaughter of any animals, paving the way for new ideas about how we eat meat

Inside The World's First Airport For Drones And Flying Cars

Plans to build the world’s first off-grid transport hub for drones and air taxis have just received government funding in the UK. The Urban AirPort, located in Coventry, will offer flying electric vehicles a place to charge and load up. The project aims to lay the groundwork for a web of transport hubs that could provide a green, clean remedy to cities’ groaning infrastructure…

The Coronavirus Vaccine: Is It Safe?

Alongside wild conspiracy theories, many people have raised doubts over approved COVID-19 vaccines. Is their dose of scepticism well-founded?

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Lands Safely On Red Planet

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars. Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched 30 July 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth.

The Orion Spacecraft Is Ready For Its Moon Mission

On 14 January the Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission was officially transferred to the space agency’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team responsible for processing Orion for its launch later this year.

THE SEE-THROUGH ZOO

Welcome to a menagerie of transparency

NEW WORLD ORDER

In 1993, the internet was brought to the masses, changing the online world forever. Now, COVID-19 will transform our virtual lives again

MIT RESEARCHERS CREATE WEARABLE DEVICE THAT CAN INFLUENCE THE CONTENT OF DREAMS

The technology, created by biomedical engineers Adam Haar Horowitz and Tomás Vega, could be used for further experiments into how dreams impact emotion, creativity, and memory

HINDSIGHT IS 2020

It was an annus horribilis for almost everybody last year, but there were some bright spots. Here are 10 events it’d be lovely to leave behind for good, and 10 that might give us hope for the future…

How To Sit

Stiff as a board, or slouched like a sloth? Pull up a chair and take the weight off your feet, as back pain researcher Dr Kieran O’Sullivan explains

Face Masks: Are They Changing How We Behave?

Wearing face masks could affect how we communicate

EYES ON THE SKY

Earth-bound telescopes are transforming our understanding of the universe. But we think they look pretty out-of-this-world too…

A learning curve

There’s nothing like a nationwide school closure to help you recognise the valuable work that teachers do, every single day

An Ocean Of Mysteries

Earth’s biggest habitat is also the one that we know the least about. Now, a new wave of innovators are engineering the technology that will help us find out more. Here’s what they are discovering…

Covid-19 Could Cause Delirium, Brain Inflammation And Stroke

A study carried out on a small number of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients at England’s National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery has linked the coronavirus to a number of neurological conditions

Could Antibodies Found In Llamas Help US To Defeat Covid-19?

Researchers at the McLellan Lab in Austin, Texas, are using llama antibodies to attack ‘spike proteins’ found on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Know Your Mind

Our brain uses shortcuts to think quickly but, sometimes, these mental timesavers let us down. Dr Pragya Agarwal discusses the science of cognitive biases, and why it’s more important than ever to understand how they hold sway over our views

Of Pandemics, Paradoxes And Cognitive Dissonance: Covid-19

Living through this difficult time raises demanding questions about what – or who – the real problems are

To The Ends Of The Earth

Scientists are going to extreme lengths to find out how climate change is affecting our planet

WITS HEROES CONFRONT COVID-19

Among the best in their fields, Wits experts are at the frontlines and behind-the-scenes against COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus

BED DOWN!

How a good night’s sleep can protect you against COVID-19

LIFE FINDS A WAY

We humans transform landscapes and leave our unmistakable marks on the world. But these marks are not always indelible because, when we move out, nature quickly moves in to stake its claim once more

Formula 1 Teams Race To Build Ventilators

Engineers from aerospace, consumer tech and motorsport are contributing to healthcare needs during the COVID-19 pandemic

A New Wave Of Bacteria Is Coming Soon…

We get inside the labs that are growing beneficial bacteria to gobble up pollution, harvest waste, generate energy and help keep us healthy

Flight Of The Navigator

In a space exploration first, NASA is preparing to deploy a chopper on the Red Planet. Flying in a fraction of Earth’s gravity, it should be a sight to behold…

The Most Radical Theories In Science

As Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” With that in mind, here are our picks of wild ideas that will blow your mind

MOTHER KNOWS BEST

Compound found in human breast milk has the potential to fight cancer