Wildlife tourism thrives on our fascination with animals and primates are particularly attractive animals to tourists. With their human-like faces, complex family dynamics and acrobatic antics,...
A multiple-exposure photograph of insects circling a light at night. Samuel Fabian, CC BY-ND It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at...
The Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone surpassed by Nasa’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity. The little (1.8kg)...
A 2019 Time magazine cover portrayed four astronauts running towards the Moon. Pictured alongside the headline “The Next Space Race”, one of the astronauts carried an...
Were dinosaurs already on their way out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, ending the Cretaceous, the geologic period that started about 145...
Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work....
Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on the surface of the Moon on Jan. 20, 2024. Despite a power issue...
People around the world eat too much sugar. When the body is unable to process sugar effectively, leading to excess glucose in the blood, this can...
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 curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA is inviting people to send their names to the surface of the Moon aboard the agency’s first robotic lunar rover, VIPER...