Cognitive decline refers to the slowing or dulling of our memory, concentration and ability to think. It’s quite common to become more forgetful as we age – failing to remember someone’s name, say, or what we set out to buy at the shops.
Increasingly frequent episodes might, though,…
In 2019, a radio telescope in Australia detected an interesting signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.
The signal, designated Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 (BLC1), had all the hallmarks of a ‘technosignature’, a potential sign of intelligent life.
It…
As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.
As the UK swelters under yet another relentless heatwave, many residents are left pondering why these scorching days feel particularly unbearable compared to those experienced in other parts of the world.
Despite sharing the same blazing sun and rising global temperatures, the heat in the UK…
The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.
While the UK…
The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.
While the UK…
Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet’s surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed “Snowball Earth”.
Liquid water appears to be the most important ingredient for life on any planet, raising the question: how did…
While it’s very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, “life finds a way,” that way can sometimes veer quite far off the beaten path.
One of the most beautiful and strange examples of this is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), small fish that live in the twilit ocean…
Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe. These cosmic objects are so heavy that they often weigh billions of times more than our sun, and they’re so dense, not even light can escape their grasp. For the most part, we’ve believed these…
The zombie apocalypse might sound like a great opportunity to wipe your debts and catch up on your reading but if 28 Years Later has taught us anything, it’s that surviving in an undead wasteland is not easy.
As the Danny Boyle film is released, we talk to survival experts and professional…