Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Creative thinking may feel totally original, but a new study suggests that imagination has more to do with your memory than you might think.

A new study suggests that people who remember small, seemingly unimportant details are actually better at…

How we talk about gastrointestinal symptoms is changing fast. In a few short…

During an excavation, amidst the Patagonian winds and hard rock, a fossil began to turn green. It was an unexpected reaction: the adhesive applied to protect the bones, fragile after millions of years beneath the ice, had interacted with plant…

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.

Today, we know that lead and gold…

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their…

It doesn’t matter whether you get eight hours of sleep or six and a half – as long as that’s normal for where you live. At least, that’s according to a new study by researchers at the University of Victoria and the University of British…

Astroforensics

When the inevitable happens and an astronaut is killed in space, astroforensics teams will be called in to find the killer. But how do you investigate a murder when your crime scene lacks gravity?

Yo-yo diets

The reason diets…

Holly is the Staff Writer for BBC Science Focus and looks after the popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (distinction) in Geoscience (Space and Climate Physics) from UCL, and specialises in astronomy and earth sciences. Before joining Our Media,…

Daily exposure to chemicals used in common household plastic products could be behind…