Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

But are they going to ensure keeping weight off long term...

Family, friends or local groups can all play a part...

Changes to our metabolism can mean that dieting ultimately results in overshooting your original weight...

Each year, poor diet accounts for millions of new type 2 diabetes cases around the world

Changes in our gut might be responsible for the loss of bone density whilst in space

Carbon-rich soil is a bigger contributor to global warming than you might realise...

Watery, womb-like music to hopefully help get babies to fall asleep...

The Natural History Museum has created a project to study the effect of noise pollution on insects

Getting a step closer to beating influenza...

How much of a setback is this failed launch?

If black holes exist, could they have white counterparts?

Would it be as simple as being squashed, or is there more to it?

If black holes cannot be seen, how do we know that they are there?

How do they form, what kinds of black holes are there, and how do they mess with time?

Magnetic fields protect life on Earth from space radiation, and they might be doing the same on other worlds

Locking away more CO2 into concrete to fight the emissions crisis

Could sensitivity to the Earth's magntic fields be more common than we realise?

A breakthrough in renewable energy as solar power reaches 5% of the World's energy needs

A delicacy of paleolithic origin...

Two researchers suggest seven new approaches for rethinking how we should do science and operate universities...

Birds, the "living dinosaurs", give us clues in their eggshells about their ancient reptilian ancestors...

Odours of other animals alter rates of sexual maturity in female mice, and even make them live longer...

Data provided by a person is regarded as less uncertain than cues that come from a computer...

Genetic alleles from millions of years back remain in the gene pool today as balanced polymorphisms linked to...