Science

A girl takes a close look at the world’s first artificial. satellite, the Soviet-made Sputnik I. Credit: Reuters

Taking Stock and Looking to the Future Sixty Years After Sputnik

Keith Gottschalk 08/10/2017

Soon after Sputnik’s launch, the military realised that spacecraft...

The Living Desert: Striped Hyena. Credit:Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

How Did Animals Get Their Spots and Stripes? Math Has an Answer

Thomas Woolley 08/10/2017

Mathematicians have been playing around with pattern formation equations...

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Meet the Chiropterologist Who Is Tracing the Lost Bats of India

Nandita Jayaraj 08/10/2017

The recovery of the Kolar Leaf-nosed bat from the...

Bathing in pure colour can have effects on the body and mind. Credit: Author provided

Does Colour Really Affect Our Mind and Body?

Stephen Westland 07/10/2017

The brain processes colour in more ways that just...

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Something in the Water: Life After Minamata’s Mercury Poisoning

Joshua Sokol 06/10/2017

From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury...

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Are the Papers Behind This Year’s Nobel Prizes in the Public Domain?

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2017

Many of the important papers penned by the chemistry...

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Chemistry Nobel for Microscopes That Can ‘See’ the Atoms of Life

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2017

Jacquet Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson optimised the...