If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.
Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.
There is growing evidence that Emoji can be useful in science communication.
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.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the awesome properties of the Number 42. Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.
The US is the world’s biggest research funder – all US agencies will have to provide immediate public access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026.
An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them.
A goldfish in a tiny robotic vehicle is proving that animals from different environments can still find their way around when you take them out of their comfortable habitats
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