How to decode the additives in your food (Image credit: Frank Chamaki) How are you supposed to differentiate between the additives in your food and drink? Chemicals can have such complex names that you can read the back...
We’re on the cusp of programmable life – what could this mean for our future? Image credit: Douglas Blackiston The concept of a living machine might make you imagine a walking, talking humanoid. However,...
“Love is more than lust or procreation. It’s also about stable bonding and enduring attachments” As a pioneering neuroscientist, Dr Michael Merzenich has been granted close to 100 patents. Using five decades of research into...
Despite all their different colours, shapes, and sounds, all fireworks have the same basic components. Aerial fireworks consist of a shell made of heavy paper that holds the ‘lift charge’, the ‘bursting charge’,...
The biology of being afraid and why this primal emotion is key for survival (Image credit: Gisela Merkuur/Pixabay) Home alone at night, you hear a loud crash. In an instant your heart starts racing,...
Parapsychologist Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe tells us how the mind can affect encounters and a weird experience that even he can’t explain With over 30 years of experience in the field of parapsychology, Dr O’Keeffe...
With every simple move we make our muscle cells are working overtime Image by Łukasz Dyłka from Pixabay Moving our limbs seems like a relatively simple task. Whether it’s picking up a cup of...
Nature has many gruesomely deadly substances, but understanding them keeps us safer (Image source: Pixabay/slightly_different) Marie Curie was the first woman to win science’s highest honour, a Nobel Prize, but her work also brought her an...
You can permanently embed lenses into your eyes with a clever bit of surgery (Image credit: Martin Slavoljubovski/ Pixabay) Being able to see our surroundings clearly enhances our lives and determines what we can do....
Create a cloud chamber and watch subatomic particles zoom through the air in front of you 1. Prepare your tank First, you’ll need to find a large, rectangular tank – like a fish tank....
