Did junk food cause blindness? Is climate change making spiders more aggressive? What’s filling a Hawaiian volcano crater? And could glowing life be easier to find?
Our top stories from 2017. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from gravitational waves to Roman concrete!
Looming Antarctic eruptions, rock art depictions of dogs, neolithic excavation, long time supernova and the tasty tasty spinifex grass.
A new continent, skin bacterial transplants, malaria makes you mosquito-bait, the speed of the Sun’s orbit and an echolocating arborial mammal!
The UK gives the OK for 3 person babies, calls to actively search for ET, inner inner cores, dogs sniffing poo and why popcorn pops.
SoT 172: It’s Really Far
- December 23, 2014
- Tagged as: asteroid, astronomy, Brigmanite, Ceres, comet, Dawn, DNA, DNA tests, forensics, geology, meteorite, minerals, minor planet, New Horizons, pasteurisation, pluto, raw milk, Rosetta, twins, water on Earth
Rosetta gives clues to Earth’s water’s origins, one of the most common minerals in our planet, New Horizons and Dawn to visit minor planets, DNA tests for twins, and the dangers of raw milk.
Philae landing, DNA studies contaminated, Australian Zircon found in Vanuatu and the mysterious Siberian craters.
Brain-to-brain communication, Greenland’s hidden Grand Canyon, in utero bacteria, in utero learning, and fish leadership.
SoT 93: An Extremely Large Telescope
- March 20, 2013
- Tagged as: AIDS, astronomy, babies, geology, HIV, space, sub-glacial lakes, telescope, virus
Women in space, HIV Baby ‘cured’, 60 Second Science, new telescopes and diamonds from the sea floor!
Rats get rehab, fruit flies with restless legs, Old Person Smell, evil eyebrows and more!