As a teenager I observed a strange phenomenon. On awakening from an unusually vivid dream, I would often find that the moon was full. And as the silvery light prevailed on subsequent nights, my nocturnal…
Lithium carbon dioxide batteries could be a gamechanger for everything from renewable-energy storage to colonising Mars.
Although one of sport’s biggest mega-events has now come to an end (the World Cup), we are still only halfway through another – the Tour de France. Already, there are clear comparisons to be made between…
The horrors of war in tweets and hashtags.
After reading a recent Hard Evidence piece about whether fertility “drops off a cliff” at 35, I feel that some hard evidence about the chance of having a baby with IVF is needed. Some of the figures quoted…
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a serious condition that affects about 3% of women globally.
Global warming is having a significant impact on marine life, as many marine organisms are adapted to live only within the average temperature range of their habitats. This applies to larger fish and sea…
This is what you get when a full moon, a perigee moon and the September equinox all happen at once.
Why less is more when it comes to exercise.
Since the middle ages, scholars have been saying that our dates might be out by decades.
