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One week ago, more than six million of us tuned into The Celebrity Traitors  (UK)  – and haven’t stopped talking about it since! Starring a raft of bona fide household names – a rarity for “celebrity” editions nowadays – the opening episode delivered a feast of mind games, side-eyes, and rising paranoia as 19 hopefuls descended on the Scottish Highlands to root out the traitors among them, all in the name of charity. And it didn’t take long for the accusations to fly. Within

For those of us who revel in the place where science and humour intersect, the Ig Nobel Prizes never disappoint. Now in their 35th year,...

My inbox is overflowing. Every day I get bombarded with promotions, pointless updates, and notifications I never signed up for. Most of...

Zapping brains with electricity has long been the stuff of horror stories. From Frankenstein and Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the...

Black Mirror’s  “ USS Callister ” first beamed onto screens in late 2017, wrapped in the familiar aesthetics of a Star Trek tribute –...

A telescope powerful enough to spot a golf ball on the Moon. A camera so detailed you’d need 400 Ultra HD TVs just to view a single image...

More than thirty years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park captivated audiences with its amber-encased DNA, lab-grown dinosaurs, and a...

For a few weeks in the summer of 2023, solid-state physics was one of the hottest trending topics on the internet (yes, really !). Social...

NASA’s Artemis program is about to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.  Or is it? Artemis was set to make...

Since Alexander Fleming stumbled upon penicillin nearly a century ago, antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives. They’re so...

“There’s more space in your life than you think!” Next year, NASA will send humans back to the moon for the first time in more than 50...

“To understand life, we need to understand proteins,” said New Scientist magazine in July 2022. And yet, if we’re being honest, the...

What’s the most destructive weather you can think of? Chances are that solar storms aren’t what you picture. But perhaps they should be....

How do you feel about machines tracking your emotions? Imagine if your phone could sense that you’re feeling stressed, and it responded...

The global population is expected to pass 10 billion within the next few decades. That means we’ll have doubled the number of people on...

Science can sometimes feel like an abstract concept – something that happens in sealed-off labs full of people in white coats making...

Everyone loves a good magic trick. Take mind-reading, for instance. We can enjoy the stagecraft and illusion safe in the knowledge that...

The designs of some of our greatest inventions are inspired by nature – from imitating birds to build flying machines, leaves to design...

What do you think of when you hear the words “magic mushrooms”? It’s likely that you may be picturing long-haired hippies, experimental...

Last month was the hottest ever recorded on Earth. It is a fact that the planet is heating up and, without drastic action, the changing...