Boring old iodised table salt should make a comebackTatjana Baibakova/Alamy When I was at uni, I had a biology lecturer…
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James Watson’s The Double Helix was first published in 1968. How does it stand the test of time? There’s a…
Do we relate better to stories about robots with faces and bodies?Carlos Castilla/Alamy Ode to the Half-BrokenSuzanne Palmer, Daw Books…
A vacuum chamber used to measure electron transitions in atomic hydrogen, from which the proton’s size was inferredAxel Beyer/MPQ At…
In 2012, Shinichi Mochizuki published a paper claiming to provide a proof for the ABC conjecture in number theoryNewscom/Alamy One…
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
Cats may find food more appealing if it has a distinct odourJaromir/Getty Images Cats that refuse their regular food might…
One of the radiolarian fossils found inside the rock sampleCourtesy of Jonathan Aitchison A tiny pellet of ancient rock, a…
Logician, mathematician, philosopher and destroyer Kurt GödelPictorial Press/Alamy Kurt Gödel, the man who ruined mathematics, was one of the most…
Quantum batteries could harvest energy by reversing time’s arrowda-kuk/Getty Images A method that can reverse the flow of time in…