If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.

Reproducible Research
Ensuring that your work is reproducible is not as daunting or complicated as you might think.
If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.

Ensuring that your work is reproducible is not as daunting or complicated as you might think.

A NASA spacecraft will slam into asteroid in Earth’s first planetary-defence test.

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.

Feedback from supervisors can be a good or bad experience. Here’s how to get it right

How to tell a compelling story in scientific presentations – a great process from Nature.

The annual Comedy Wildlife Photography awards had some hilarious entries.

Love them or hate them, hugs are part of Western culture. But hugging is not as straightforward as it may seem. Where do your arms go? How long is too long?

Proponents embrace LaTeX because of the total control it offers for document layout.