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World’s Oceans Have A Million Times More Plastic Than We Thought
New measurement methods show that pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm…
Space Bugs That Eat Rock And Metal
Metallosphaera sedula is a single-celled organism and hails from some of the…
Preserving Pirated Scientific Papers
Library Genesis and Sci-Huh have evolved into very popular and massive repositories…
Suspended Animation For The Critically Injured
Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have used emergency…
How To Really Lose Weight
If you lose 1 kg of body weight, where does it go?…
The Way You Move Makes You Unique
A French-Australian study finds the way your muscle groups work together is…
Our Restless Earth (Part 2)
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes tells how the Serbian polymath Milutin Milankovic, interned…
Our Restless Earth (Part 1)
In this fascinating discussion, Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the background and…
Coming To Grips With The Science Behind Buruli Ulcers
Piers talks with leading experts on Buruli ulcers Professor Tim Stinear of…
Lab-grown Meat Coming Of Age
Production costs are falling dramatically and the day may come when a…
Facebook Zealots Likened To Drug Addicts
A recent Michigan State University study published in the Journal of Behavioural…
The Iron-ion Battery From India
Newly developed at the Institute of Technology in Madras, iron-ion batteries are…
Accelerating Science With AI
Artificial intelligence has been proven to fast track technical breakthroughs and human…
Celebrating Science In Australia
The whole country is reveling in the wonders of science and the…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 2)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 1)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
On Stephen Hawking’s Epitaph
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the equation inscribed on Stephen Hawking’s grave…
Taming Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Looks like heart disease drug Ticagrelor could double as a new kind…
A Clean And Green Alternative To Styrofoam
Researchers at Washington State University have invented an environmentally-friendly foam made from…
Periodic Table Turns 150
In 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev formulated his periodic table which revolutionised…