Category: Practical Science

This Week in Science: Underground Superhighways, Alien Twilights and a Shape-Shifting Material

This Week in Science: Underground Superhighways, Alien Twilights and a Shape-Shifting Material

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

This Week in Science: Octopus Minds, Hidden Quantum Worlds and a Search for Aliens

This Week in Science: Octopus Minds, Hidden Quantum Worlds and a Search for Aliens

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

This Week in Science: Tiny Blue Octopuses, Jupiter’s Mega-Bolts and a Glacier on the Move

This Week in Science: Tiny Blue Octopuses, Jupiter’s Mega-Bolts and a Glacier on the Move

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

This Week in Science: Impossible LEDs, Hidden Neutron Stars and the Mystery of the Right Hand

This Week in Science: Impossible LEDs, Hidden Neutron Stars and the Mystery of the Right Hand

Six standout science stories from this week: Cambridge powers an "impossible" LED, a kimchi microbe sweeps nanoplastics from the gut, NASA's Roman telescope prepares to weigh hidden neutron stars, a plant returns from extinction in the Australian outback, a remarkable stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution, and scientists explain why humans are so overwhelmingly right-handed.