Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

I’ve always wondered, when lightning hits water does it go with a splash? I’ve asked several of my professors and none...

What should the colour of a healthy person’s urine be and what is the optimum colour?

I’m a high school teacher and music teacher in Brisbane, Australia. I really enjoy listening to the podcast version of...

One of the most common addictions on Earth is the addiction to cigarettes, so tobacco and nicotine addiction. A very...

Professor Barry Everitt tells us about the basis of addiction - What happens in the brain to get people hooked?

How does addiction change the brain? Professor Julie Kauer has found that the changes involved in becoming addicted...

Each term Cambridge University’s Rising Stars project helps young researchers to tell the world about their work. We...

It’s that time of the year when everyone is thinking, ‘how many inches extra, feet, pounds, stone have I gained over...

Why is it that headphone wires, even when put away neatly, always end up in a tangle - worse even than you could do on...

A gene-treatment to reduce the risk of heavy drinking

We tend to think of parasites as evolutionary cheats, surreptitiously taking advantage of their hosts’ hard work while...

Snowflakes form when water vapour condenses directly into ice crystals, and for many years writers have used their...