BBC Science Focus
BIOLOGY : MOTHERS ARE FORCED TO FIGHT A NUTRIENT WAR WITH THEIR UNBORN BABIES
A study on mice enabled scientists to discover that children inherit 'greedy genes' from fathers
1 min |
August 2023
BBC Science Focus
GREAT EARED NIGHTJAR
Lock up your goats, it's the great eared nightjar; a big-mouthed, teat-wrangling, milk-gobbler of a bird that will desiccate your bleaters and leave them blind.
2 min |
August 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Make a Solar System diorama
An easy, fun craft project to learn about our neighbouring planets
3 min |
September 2023
All About Space UK
WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGE ASTRONOMY?
With computers growing smarter than ever, training them how to spot and categorise astronomical objects could lead to a plethora of breakthroughs
7 min |
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All About Space UK
MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHY DOES JUPITER CHANGE COLOUR?
For years, scientists have tried to work out why Jupiter’s bands frequently move and change colour. Now they believe they’ve found the answer
7 min |
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BBC Sky at Night Magazine
10 targets to get you started in astrophotography
From star trails to your first planets, Tom Kerss shares 10 inspiring projects to kick off your night photography journey
7 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Capturing a first: the Spin Nebula
Amateur astronomers work collaboratively to produce first high-resolution image of little-known nebula He 2-11
1 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
When it comes to lighting, less is more
Patricia Yanez on designing considerate lighting for a luxury Red Sea resort
2 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Early Universe seen running slow
Cosmic clocks appear to run slower soon after the Big Bang, just as Einstein predicted
2 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Mastering flats
Adding DSLR flat frames to your workflow to improve your deep-sky images
3 min |
September 2023
All About Space UK
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?
Asteroids could provide us with rare resources
2 min |
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All About Space UK
NEPTUNE
The isolated azure ice giant remains a relative mystery
4 min |
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All About Space UK
CELESTRON STARSENSE EXPLORER DX 102AZ
Innovative technology provides the simplest and quickest solution yet to finding objects to observe, and this instrument will be very popular with beginners
7 min |
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All About Space UK
Neil deGrasse Tyson - "It would be cool if we were some simulation"
The host of StarTalk has become one of the world's best known astrophysicists, popularising space and science for millions
7 min |
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All About Space UK
CLIMATES CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Alongside Earth, our planetary neighbourhood is changing. But not for the better…
8 min |
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All About Space UK
OBJECT HOTTER THAN THE SUN FOUND ORBITING A DISTANT STAR AT BREAKNECK SPEED
A weird celestial object that’s blurring the line between planet and star has been uncovered
2 min |
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All About Space UK
TIME APPEARED TO MOVE FIVE TIMES SLOWER IN THE FIRST BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG
Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of ‘clocks’ in the early universe
3 min |
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All About Space UK
A HUNGRY BLACK HOLE 'SWITCHES ON' AS ASTRONOMERS WATCH IN SURPRISE
J221951 is one of the most extreme examples yet
3 min |
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BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Lights in the darkness Photographing the aurora
Wilderness photographer Valtteri Hirvonen - who spends nearly half the year in darkness in his native Finland - reveals how he found new inspiration in the Northern Lights
5 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The rock hunter RETURNS
As OSIRIS-REx becomes the latest spacecraft to bring back samples from another world, Ezzy Pearson examines how these missions help reveal our Solar System's history
8 min |
September 2023
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Star-hopping
Steve Tonkin explains an easy technique to navigate your way around the night sky
3 min |
September 2023
All About Space UK
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MILKY WAY
The Milky Way is our home galaxy – a vast star factory with a monstrous black hole at its heart. Join our tour of the cosmic pinwheel that’s home to every star we can see in the night sky
10+ min |
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All About Space UK
MARS HELICOPTER PHONES HOME AFTER A 63-DAY SILENCE
Rugged terrain had kept Ingenuity from communicating with its robotic partner, the Perseverance rover
1 min |
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All About Space UK
SIX OF THE BEST SPACE PRANKS
It turns out that the sky isn’t the limit when it comes to a good old-fashioned practical joke
4 min |
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BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Highlights of the autumn skies
From returning favourites to unmissable one-off events, Katrin Raynor picks out the best night-sky sights coming up in the months ahead
5 min |
September 2023
All About Space UK
COSMIC 'SANDWICH' THEORY COULD EXPLAIN HOW SMALLER PLANETS ARE FORMED
Sandwiched planet formation may arise as the result of gas and dust being squeezed between large planets
3 min |
Issue 146
All About Space UK
MOON TOUR - COPERNICUS
Get up close to the ‘Monarch of the Moon’
3 min |
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BBC Science Focus
How does the fitness app on my phone know how many steps I've taken, especially if it's in my bag?
Your phone uses GPS to track distance travelled. But try disabling it and you'll notice that fitness apps will still give you step counts.
1 min |
August 2023
BBC Science Focus
Blood and bone
The human body is a wealth of parts and connections the skeleton, 86 billion 206 bones in neurons in the brain, roughly 25 quadrillion potential neural pathway routes... and yet there are just 20 arteries carrying your entire blood supply.
1 min |
August 2023
BBC Science Focus
Who needs wings?
This little critter with the cheeky grin is a Mizoram parachute gecko, Gekko mizoramensis, a previously unknown species of gliding gecko from the tropical forests of northern India.
1 min |