August 9, 2020

Why are only 10% of people left-handed? Here’s what scientists know so far

Are you a rightie or a leftie? No, we’re not talking politics here, we’re talking handedness. And unless you happen

We may have ‘recycled’ a key region of our brains as humans learned to read

Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years.

Kids need to spend time alone outdoors to really bond with nature, study finds

Spending solitary time in the great outdoors, whether it’s fishing, hunting or exploring, could help foster a kid’s strong bond

Physicists demonstrate a weird effect where heating particles causes them to freeze

The idea of freezing particles by warming them is counterintuitive, to say the least. But physicists have shown how specially

Some extreme planets have lava oceans, but something else is making them so bright

There are countless exoplanets in the Milky Way, but some are more hardcore than others. Take a type known as

NASA’s rover is taking a tree-like device that converts CO2 into oxygen to Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 30 July, carrying a host of cutting-edge technology including high-definition video equipment