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Holes in baby dinosaur bones show how football-sized hatchlings grew to 3-tonne teens
Shutterstock Roger S. Seymour, University of Adelaide Despite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were…
How the age of mammals could end
When Pangea Ultima forms, conditions on Earth will be too inhospitable for most mammals to survive. Maurus Spescha/Shutterstock…
‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO
Adrian Hill, University of Oxford The World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will…
Citizen scientists collect more nature data than ever, showing us where common and threatened species live
Shutterstock Erin Roger, CSIRO; Cameron Slatyer, CSIRO, and Dax Kellie, CSIRO Citizen science isn’t new anymore. For decades,…
Is it normal to forget words while speaking? And when can it spell a problem?
mimi thian/unsplash Greig de Zubicaray, Queensland University of Technology We’ve all experienced that moment mid-sentence when we just…
Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu
Cornelius Krishna Tedjo/Shutterstock Akira O’Connor, University of St Andrews and Christopher Moulin, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Repetition has…
Apple has switched from its Lightning connector to USB-C — we explain which is better and why they did it
Shutterstock Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University After many years of designing and selling a variety of different cables to…
Playful whales can use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant. This “kelping” behaviour is more common than we realised
WA Western Whale Watch Australia, CC BY-NC-ND Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University If you’re a whale, there’s often not…
What’s the carbon footprint of owning pet fish? An expert explains
One of the most popular species of fish found in tropical marine aquariums is the common clownfish (Amphiprion…
Farmed rhinos will soon ‘rewild’ the African savanna
Jason Gilchrist, Edinburgh Napier University With all the terrible news on climate change, it’s easy to lose track…