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From a wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid to the world's first sub-nanometre computer chip, this week's science spans the very distant and the vanishingly small. We've also got goldfish behaving badly, a fresh warning about a common pesticide, a brand-new state of matter, and a reality check for anyone taking fish oil for their memory. Here are … Continue reading This Week in Science: Wobbling Asteroids, Wayward Goldfish and the World’s Tiniest Transistors
From the world's most famous predator to the world's rarest porpoise, this week's science stretches across hundreds of millions of years and the full sweep of the natural world. We have a dinosaur that took its time growing up, planets that spin faster than they should, and a clever trick for the birds that seem … Continue reading This Week in Science: Slow-Growing Giants, Defiant Flocks and a Digital Lifeline
An updated IB Diploma Biology guide carries a first assessment 2028 label and a brand-new data booklet. Here's what's actually changed, what hasn't, and what to do about it.
From the vast fungal network humming beneath every field to an alien world where dawn and dusk have completely different weather, this week's science is full of hidden systems finally coming into view. Here are six discoveries worth sharing with your students — spanning ecology, space, materials, chemistry, animal behaviour and artificial intelligence. 1. The … Continue reading This Week in Science: Underground Superhighways, Alien Twilights and a Shape-Shifting Material
From an octopus that learns to read a mirror to a seven-hour hunt for alien signals, this week's science spans the deep ocean, the human body and the edge of the Solar System. Here are six discoveries that show how researchers keep finding the unexpected in places we thought we understood. Read on for the … Continue reading This Week in Science: Octopus Minds, Hidden Quantum Worlds and a Search for Aliens
From the deep waters of the Galápagos to the violent storms of Jupiter, this week's science has been all about surprises. We dive 6,000 feet to meet a brand-new species, peer inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old fish, watch an Antarctic glacier collapse at record speed, and find out what beetroot juice has to do … Continue reading This Week in Science: Tiny Blue Octopuses, Jupiter’s Mega-Bolts and a Glacier on the Move