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The wood wide web, coined and discovered by Dr. Suzanne Simard in 1990, is the intricate process of how trees talk and help each other. More specif...

Ada Lovelace is widely known as the world's first computer programmer. In the 1840s, she wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early com...

The world as it is now is changing and our society will change with it. But what sort of jobs will our children have in this future? In an age of i...

Bees are in serious decline in the UK and globally. We have already lost around 13 species and another 35 are currently at risk, but we have 10 way...

Bees are intelligent, and like other intelligent creatures they communicate with one another. Different creatures communicate differently, for inst...

What is a flower? A flower is the reproductive structure of flowering plants. Many flowers that rely on pollinators, such as birds, butterflies and...

The life of a penguin is not an easy one. Living outside in freezing -60 degrees weather and keeping an eye out for predators is as difficult as it...

Can penguin poo tell the effects of climate change? Scientists from the Milner Centre for Evolution have just returned from a month-long expedition...

The question of why some mammals lay eggs, among other questions, has been answered in a study in 2021 that looked at monotreme (egg-laying mammal)...

Science education in early years plays such a key part in a child's development, but why is it so important at this age? Because it is these early ...

Despite its name, British Science Week (BSW) is a 10 day festival celebrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But how did it star...

PhD student Amelia Penny discovered a new dinosaur species which is also the world's largest Jurassic pterosaur - a 170-million-year-old winged rep...