All our ancestors had plenty of fur. According to a new study on relatively hairless mammals, we still have the means to be hirsute. Those genes, it seems, have simply been switched off.
Astronomical phenomena can have some funny names, like the star named ‘Sualocin’ (‘Nicolaus’ spelt backwards), or the nebula called ‘Dark Doodad’.
The winners have been announced for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Definitely gets a few giggles.
63-year-old artist Simon Beck makes colossal yet intricate designs on the unlikely canvas of enormous snowfields. Beck treks for hours carving with his feet, creating snow sculptures over a quarter mile long.
Excellent NASA concept visualisation of the evolution of our Moon.
Watch this great construction of how Earth’s landscape has changed over the past 100 million years and read about the science behind creating it
Basically ‘deep tech’ means bringing together science, engineering and design thinking – it’s how you create true innovations.
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