How It Works UK
NATURE'S MOST TOXIC ROCKS
Why these sparkling crystalline minerals are among the most hazardous rocks in nature
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Issue 202
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Earth welcomes 'stranded' space duo
The pair unexpectedly spent nine months longer than intended on the ISS
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
NASA fires chief scientist
The move could signal a shift from science to exploration
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Stargazing without stars
Even if clouds stop play, you can still make a cosmic connection, says Eva Adorisio
2 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How animals use the stars
The animal world is intricately entwined with the night sky. Naturalist Megan Shersby looks at some fascinating ways that animals take their cues from the cosmos
4 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The behind the stars star signs
An astronomer's journey through the real zodiac
6 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Are we ALONE? We asked the experts
Four specialists in the hunt for extraterrestrial life tell Ezzy Pearson how they're hoping to find aliens
8 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Killer supernovae devastated life on Earth - twice
Nearby star deaths may have caused two of our planet's mass extinctions
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May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Sky-Watcher Wave 100i mount and tripod
Want a whisper-quiet, lightweight and effortless mount? This could tempt you
4 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A unique view of Baily's beads
This award-winning eclipse sequence reveals the Moon's rugged peaks
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May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Stephen Hawking
Hawking's work revolutionised our ideas about how the Universe began
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May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Tianwen-2 - Unravelling the secrets of asteroids
China is set to mount the latest mission to retrieve a sample of an asteroid and bring it home. Stuart Atkinson investigates
5 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Study uncovers why the Red Planet is red
Mars may have taken on its rusty colour when oceans still covered the planet's surface
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May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
50 years of the European Space Agency
As Europe's organisation for space exploration marks five decades since its foundation in May 1975, Anita Chandran looks at key moments in its history
6 min |
May 2025
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The star that won't stop exploding
Every four years, the white dwarf detonates in one of the most violent ways ever seen
1 min |
May 2025
BBC Science Focus
Scientists finally solve key Parkinson's mystery
A newly discovered protein could be the key to developing a treatment for the disease
2 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Level up your desk
With just under half of us still working from home, to one degree or another, here's our pick of the products that can help improve your health and power up your productivity
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
GUT REACTION
Scientists have been telling us for years that if we love our gut bacteria, they'll love us back and help us with everything from easing digestion to fighting disease. Now, new research suggests that our microbiomes can even help us resist the effects of ageing... if we treat them right
8 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
'Hungry gene' linked to obesity present in dogs and humans
There's a reason dogs find dieting as difficult as us
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April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Some scientists think insect populations are increasing.Here's why they're wrong
The debate over the misleading results of a flawed study raises questions about how biodiversity loss should be measured
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Freeze your brain if you want, but you won't be you ...even if they can thaw it out
The chances of successfully cheating death by having your head cryogenically frozen remain sub-zero
3 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
IF AN ADVANCED CIVILISATION LIVED ON EARTH MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO TELL?
Humans have long been fascinated by the possibility of finding technologically advanced beings elsewhere in the Universe, but what if such a civilisation had lived right here on Earth, long before humans evolved?
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April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Are statins the best way to lower my cholesterol?
Statin use is already widespread and is increasing every year. But are the drugs right for everyone?
5 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
CAN WE COMMUNICATE IN DREAMS?
Today's machine learning methods have been shown to visualise our dreams. But what if we wished to go further and actually share our dreams? At present, while we can interpret brain signals and roughly figure out imagined scenes and high-level thoughts, we have no way to transfer these into another brain. Perhaps that's a good thing: many of us might be a little uneasy at the idea of computers pushing ideas directly into our brains during sleep.
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April 2025
BBC Science Focus
WHAT'S THE WORLD'S OLDEST CHEESE?
The oldest cheese is hard to trace, although we have direct evidence that humans have consumed milk for thousands of years.
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April 2025
BBC Science Focus
THE PARADOXICAL FROG
The world is full of intriguing paradoxes. Does this article still exist when you're not reading it? If I travelled back in time and killed my grandfather, would I still be writing this now? And how can two socks go into the washing machine, but only one sock comes out? Perhaps the biggest paradox, however, is how can a frog get smaller as it grows up?
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April 2025
BBC Science Focus
HOW IS ANTIMATTER STORED?
Antimatter particles are almost identical to their normal matter counterparts, except they carry the opposite charge and momentum.
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
Stunning new cosmic map reveals Universe's weirdest phenomena
The Euclid space telescope has captured millions of galaxies in astonishing detail
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
How to spot a narcissist, according to science
Narcissists are more likely to feel socially excluded
1 min |
April 2025
BBC Science Focus
The strange skeletons that could rewrite the history of the pyramids
Unexpected evidence found on human remains is shaking up our understanding of ancient burials
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