Our understanding of the Universe has revealed that its existence, and indeed our own, relies on a particular set of rules. For example, the fundamental ‘constants of nature’, such as the charge of th

Amazing answers to your curious questions

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

The Breath of the Gods: The History and ...

There was the time hundreds of snakes came out of hibernation early before a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake in the Chinese city of Haicheng in 1975. Then there were the golden-winged warblers th