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How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes
Over 8,000 satellites are orbiting Earth today, capturing images like this, of the Louisiana coast. NASA Earth Observatory…
Venus: proof of active volcanoes – at last
A perspective view across Maat Mons on Venus, based on Magellan radar data. Nasa/JPL David Rothery, The Open…
How we created the first map of an insect brain – and what it means for our understanding of the human brain
Tomatito/Shutterstock Michael Winding, The Francis Crick Institute Imagine trying to navigate an unfamiliar city but you’ve lost your…
The flap of a butterfly’s wings: why autumn is not a good time to predict if El Niño is coming
Shutterstock Nandini Ramesh, CSIRO Remember the butterfly effect? It was a popular summary of chaos theory suggesting a…
Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?
NOAA / AP Thomas Mortlock, UNSW Sydney On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia…
How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct?
It wasn’t flying that gave birds the advantage. Corey Ford/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images Chris Lituma, West Virginia…
Four ways that fossils are part of everyday life
The building blocks of the Giza pyramids contain trillions of fossilised remains of an ocean-dwelling organism called foraminifera.…
Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what doesn’t exist has a long evolutionary history
Your brain can imagine things that haven’t happened or that don’t even exist. agsandrew/iStock via Getty Images Plus…
How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries
pexels/ mart production, CC BY-SA Mark Lorch, University of Hull What images does science conjure up in your…
How fish evolved to walk – and in one case, turned into humans
3D rendering of the tiktaalik, an extinct walking fish. Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Chris Organ, University of Reading When you…