What if you fell into a black hole?
Travelling into the singularity of one of these objects would be the one-way trip of a lifetime A black hole has one of the strongest gravitational pulls of any object in the universe; get...
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Defibrillators: how does restarting hearts work?
How defibrillators use electric shocks to bring struggling hearts back to life
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Debunked: “PLANES ARE SPRAYING TOXINS OVER US”
We uncover some of the biggest falsehoods in technology
MicroRNA: the junk DNA controlling our genes
Discover the microRNA ‘junk DNA’ that controls at least 30 per cent of our genes
The SS Richard Montgomery: the explosive WWII wreck beneath the Thames
The WWII ship, the SS Richard Montgomery, carries cargo which could blow up at any moment
What if all our antibiotics stopped working?
Bacteria are waging war on our drugs, and defeat is not an option Until the 1940s, one in 20 children died before their first birthday. Tuberculosis and pneumonia had no cure, and a simple...
Do astronauts still have to be quarantined when they return to Earth?
Brain Dump: your curious questions answered!
The glasswing butterfly – the butterfly with invisible wings
How the glasswing hides in plain sight and why it could stop people from going blind
Extreme animal transformations
Resolving to change for the new year is easier said than done, but these animals are able to undergo the most shocking transformations
Top 10 chameleon facts
With high-speed tongues, swivelling eyes and strange life cycles, this family is full of colourful characters
