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A Giant Leap For Animal Kind

As we look to set up permanent bases on the Moon, Mars and beyond, we’ll need to bring other forms of life with us...but how will they cope with life in space?

Going Back To The Moon

The next few years will see an explosion of lunar explorers. But what will they be looking for when they get there?

Hide And Seek In Cyberspace

A puzzle that remained unanswered for more than 14 years has now been solved, thanks to technological leaps in image searching

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. The Urban Air Port, 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 our cities’ groaning infrastructure. Daniel Bennett talks to Ricky Sandhu, the founder and CEO of Urban Air Port, to see if the idea could take off.

Pumas In The Peaks

Living secretive lives against the spectacular backdrop of Chile’s Torres del Paine, Patagonia’s pumas are proving a conservation success.

Waste Not, Want Not

Meet the communities forging the way to a trash-free future, by reshaping unwanted by-products into valuable resources

A Scientist's Guide To Life - How To Get Fit At Home

Due to the coronavirus, more people are exercising indoors. This month, we ask exercise researchers Matt Cocks and Katie Hesketh how to get fit at home

A Safe Space

Intrusive social media and online shouting matches have left people seeking the internet hideouts that allow them to be themselves

How Your Brain Creates Reality

Do we see the world as it really is, or are we creating our own reality? Here, we delve into the neuroscience behind the world that we experience

Species That Glow In The Dark

From the ocean depths to remote rainforests, bioluminescent organisms light up the natural world. We take an illuminating look at the species that glow in the dark.

A Universe Full Of See-Through Stars

Mysterious discoveries around the globe have opened up a tantalising possibility: the cosmos could be full of ghostly stars that are invisible to our most sensitive detectors

Alexa, Tell Me A Story

Dr Lara Martin wants to teach artificial intelligence how to tell a tale and tell it well. She reveals to Amy Barrett why we need to train machines how to be storytellers and what Dungeons & Dragons has to do with it all….

Estas españolas tienen mucho que contarte

Tienen otro color de piel, otra educación, a menudo otra cultura. Pero casi todas vivieron su infancia en España. Son y se sienten españolas, a pesar de las preguntas insistentes, de algunas miradas glaciales y de ciertos desprecios. Sus historias nos hablan de una sociedad a la que, a menudo, le cuesta abrirse, pero que cada vez es más mezclada, más rica, con menos prejuicios.

Miracle CURES

As the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine reaches a climax, Gareth Williams explores four previous attempts to rid the world of lethal diseases, from Edward Jenner’s “delightful” war on smallpox to the rancorous battle to consign polio to the past

Mysteries Of The Universe

In the last decade, we’ve taken photos of a black holes, peered into the heart of atoms and looked back at the birth of the Universe. And yet, there are yawning gaps in our understanding of the Universe and the laws that govern it. These are the mysteries that will be troubling physicists and astronomers over the next decade and beyond

Army Ants On The March With The Miniature Military

As top arthropod predators in tropical rainforests, the biology of army ants is built around hunting in vast battalions. Discover life on the forest front line.

Beat The Burnout

How science can help you get the better of pandemic fatigue

Five Sicilian Lessons For D-Day

Operation Husky provided the Allies with valuable learnings ahead of an even more momentous amphibious assault – on Normandy’s beaches in June 1944…

The Seasons Of You

The calendar year follows the pattern of spring, summer, autumn, winter. But perhaps it shouldn’t…

Why Were The Dinosaurs So Successful?

Why were the dinosaurs so successful?

How To Concentrate

This month, we tackle… oh, hang on, wait a minute, I just need to let the dog out, now what was it again? Psychologist Dr Nick Perham from Cardiff Metropolitan University explains how to concentrate

Don't Blow Your Top

It’s vital to keep your blood pressure healthy. This is how I keep an eye on mine

Wetland ARCHITECTS

As the landmark River Otter Beaver Trial draws to an end, what has it taught us about the way these industrious dam builders influence the form and function of our wild places?

Elizabeth I's Unlikely Ally

She was the defiantly Protestant queen of England; he was the Catholic king of France. And yet, against the odds, the two became firm friends. And yet, against the odds, the two became firm friends. Estelle Paranque reveals how common enemies drove Henri III and Elizabeth I into one another’s affections

Innovations - Prepare Yourself For Tomorrow

Meet the robot that’s tackling Chemistry’s biggest challenges

How Times Change

Shops and restaurants may be slowly opening up, but we have to accept that things may not be as they were for a long time

To The Ends Of The Earth

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

An Ocean Of Mysteries

Earth’s biggest habitat is also the one that we know the least about. A new wave of innovators is engineering the technology that will help us find out more – here’s what they are discovering

Scarface: The Real Lion King

As the sun sets on the reign of the most famous lion ever to walk the Maasai Mara, we look back at the life of a legend – and the winds of change blowing through this iconic grassland

Can Life Exist Around A Black Hole?

Much of the recent search for extraterrestrial life has focused on hunting down planets orbiting in the so-called Goldilocks zone – an area surrounding a star that has just the right conditions for life to emerge. Now, new research suggests that such Goldilocks zones could also exist near supermassive black holes by Colin Stuart