Laura Boness
Teenagers have more flexible brains than adults and find it easier to adapt to new technology. Image: VLADGRIN/Shutterstock

Teenage brains in the digital world

When it comes to technology, adults won’t be able to keep up with their children.

Hurricane-Isabel

Viewing tropical storms and other natural disasters from space

Australia receives an average of 13 cyclones a year, while the US might see up to 20. Every one of these destructive storms varies in their life cycles, intensity, movement, size and impacts such…

Good tonal qualities are essential for any violin. Image: Anton Balazh/Shutterstock

Fungi treatment produces Stradivarius-worthy sounds

A bit of fungi and a modern violin can sound like a Stradivarius.

A protein from spinach has been used in biohybrid solar cells. Image: JIANG HONGYAN/Shutterstock

Spinach power could provide electricity

Apparently Popeye the Sailorman isn’t the only one who can get a boost from spinach.

Can you judge where the halfway point is? Image: Boule/Shutterstock

Can the shape of the glass affect your drinking habits?

Have you ever finished a drink almost twice as fast as your friends?

Captivity and a vaccination may now be the only way to save this iconic animal. Image: Cloudia Newland/Shutterstock

Deadly devil disease is here to stay

The devil is apparently in the chromosomes.

Enzymes are often thought to be specific, catalysing only one reaction in a cell (left), but some more promiscuous enzymes have many functions and catalyse many reactions in a cell. Credit: Courtesy of Systems Biology Research Group, UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering

Why are some enzymes so promiscuous?

Enzymes are meant to be specific, right?

The skeletons of Chinese pangolin (top) and Ernanodon antelios (bottom). Image: Manis "“ Wikimedia commons; Ernanodon © Peter Kondrashov.

Fossil find solves evolutionary debate

It’s hard to track down members of a family when many of them disappeared millions of years ago.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a type of dwarf spiral galaxy. Image: John A Davis

The Milky Way has a twin

Or maybe even two…scientists have found a group of galaxies that look just like ours.

lunar-mission

In memory of Neil Armstrong

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