Evolutionary tree of life: modern science is showing how we got so much wrong

Flickr, CC BY If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall...

PH’s Science for Change Program wins UN Public Service Award

MANILA – The country’s Science for Change Program (S4CP) was named one of the winners of the 2022 United Nations (UN) Public Service Award, under the “Enhancing...

Australia just flew its own ‘vomit comet’. It’s a big deal for zero-gravity space research

Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case...

Citizen science volunteers are almost entirely white

CC BY-ND Every day, volunteers around the world contribute to scientific studies through “citizen science.” Citizen science can be anything from counting migrating birds to measuring...

Metaphors matter: Why changing the name ‘monkeypox’ may help curb the discriminatory language used to discuss it

As we pass the one-month milestone of the current monkeypox outbreak, reports are emerging that the World Health Organization (WHO) intends to change the name of...

How do drugs know where to go in the body? A pharmaceutical scientist explains why some medications are swallowed while others are injected

When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is, it...

In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?

Socially isolated people have differently wired brains and poorer cognition – new research

Why do we get a buzz from being in large groups at festivals, jubilees and other public events? According to the social brain hypothesis, it’s because...

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for

The mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and producing incredibly sharp images, like this test image of a star. NASA/STScI via Flickr...

Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Could...