Dr Daniel Yon Daniel is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of A Trick of the Mind: How the ...

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Megalodon sharks were much less mighty than once thought, controversial new study claims Shark experts are now in disagreement over the apex predator's shape.

Animal brains v human brains – let the Battle of the Brains commence! Think humans have the best brains out there? Yes, we’re pretty smart, but there are animals whose brains have evolved some ...

A vast, untapped source of clean energy lies beneath the western United States – one that could potentially supply around 10 per cent of the country’s electricity, according to a major new assessment ...

Summer solstice 2021: When to see it in the UK Astronomy lecturer Dr Darren Baskill tells us everything we need to know about the longest day of the year.

Natalie Starkey: What asteroids can tell us about our Solar System Natalie Starkey explains the difference between a comet and an asteroid, how they could help us understand the origins of life, and ...

The search for security From the earliest hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians to modern quantum cryptology, humans have explored ways to keep information safe from prying eyes. The coding (and ...

Dr Claire Guest is the co-founder of the Medical Detection Dogs charity. She explains how dogs are able to sniff out cancer and how this incredible skill is being deployed around the world.

Groundhog day: The chubby rodents' emergence is more about love than the changing seasons Are groundhogs really able to predict seasonal changes or is there more to it?

Great apes probably smarter than early human Australopithecus species Despite having a similar-sized brain to modern apes, scientists believe Australopithecus had a lower rate of blood flow to the ...

From the days of ancient technology to modern science - find out what happened on this day in the history of science.