On May 5th the world experienced what is known as a “supermoon”. This refers to a time at which the moon is both full and…

Think ‘duck’ and what comes to mind? Fond childhood memories of feeding the duckies at a pond? Dodging one of the feathered beasts whilst rowing…

It was over 50 years ago that The Shirelles asked, “Will you still love me tomorrow?” But the doo-wop-y girl group’s question is far, far…

Reading about the recent exoneration of Robert Dewey , after 16 years behind bars in the United States for a rape and murder that he…

Last Thursday I attended a talk by Professor Carl Wunsch of MIT, as part of the Climate Connections lecture series at Wolfson College.  As an…

The honey bee is often used as the poster species for altruistic behaviour, behaving in a way costly to itself in order to benefit others…

The University of Oxford recently received a 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system; one of only two currently operating at this field strength in…

Looking back on the evolutionary history of life it can often seem like a long series of accidents. However, if we wound back time millions…

On the surface, kids from Los Angeles and children of the Shuar, a society indigenous to the Amazon region of Ecuador, wouldn’t seem to have…

With so many media articles desperately trying to tell us that if we have a minute either side of eight hours sleep a night we…