A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it again and again and again: who knows why cats do anything? Just over the course of today, my cat purred at me, bristled at me and attacked a paperclip as i

The normal diet of gladiators was vegetarian, but not through choice or principle. The rations in their barracks consisted of sagina, which literally translates as ‘stuffing’. It was a barley and bean

Anyone who’s ever attempted a New Year reset will be familiar with the overwhelming feeling of trying to break well-worn habits and squeeze new activities – whether that’s journalling, practising mind

Most of us know that computers can beat humans at chess. Did you also know that they can now beat us at Go. Perhaps the bigger question is why humans chose tabletop games as the benchmark of intellige

In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th