Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

What about glue makes it sticky?

What does raising body temperature do to help fight illnesses?

Could our universe be flat?

Who will win this month's big brain award?

Joining us this week...

The answer involves zooming in on the singularity at their centre...

Making sure reproducibility remains a central pillar of the scientific process..

The root of all evil...

What implications such discrepancies could have on researchers' reputations...

With 70% of researchers having failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, how worried should we be?

Cameras attached to tiger sharks have discovered the world's largest seagrass ecosystem

It could reduce the necessary number of glucose tolerance tests by 50%, saving lots of time and money.

The scientific hub coordinating extra-terrestrial communication strategies...

A new method of producing red blood cells from stem cells

How bees detect electrical fields around flowers, and how fertilisers disrupt that

Primitive fish that invaded the land had a single lung; so why have terrestrial animals all got two?

Executive Director Damian Pattinson explains why this is the future of scientific publishing...

Do reproducible differences in the density of the myelin that insulates nerve connections explain the gift of the gab?

Scans during pregnancy show marmoset babies making crying faces...

Preventative measures, as usual, are more effective than dealing with diseased patients...

How scientists are trying to prepare people's immune system to better fight the disease...

Trials in treating similar infections to TB have enjoyed some success...

With so many unreported cases, how can we improve TB diagnostics?

What causes TB and what are the symptoms?