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Death in a space graveyard; bad-ass satellite meets a nasty end
Sneaky Russian Luch satellite blows apart in "safe" graveyard orbit. If even retirement homes explode, our orbital future gets shaky. Wake-up call?

Adam Spencer
Feb 10


Gorillas on the Piss?
Wild chimps get up to 14g ethanol per day from fruit, the equivalent of a stubby of VB or a margarita. Drunkie monkey? Not really.

Adam Spencer
Nov 12, 2025


The colour nobody should see
Scientists tricked human eyes into seeing a new colour — “olo.” It lives between red and green, where biology says no colour should exist.

Adam Spencer
Nov 1, 2025


Hey bacon breath: World’s first pig lung transplant
Chinese surgeons have taken a landmark step toward a world where we tackle the chronic global shortage in human organs … with our porkiest friends!

Adam Spencer
Sep 10, 2025


Cracking the perfect boiled egg - a tasty piece of science
Fed up with rubber-tough white and chalky yolk, or a weepy undercooked mess? A team of Italian materials scientists has finally cracked the problem but their solution, published in the prestigious journal Communications Engineering, might raise a few eyebrows.

Adam Spencer
Apr 21, 2025


Super particle reveals secrets of the universe
An incredibly lucky find of an incredibly rarely seen particle sheds light on deep cosmological questions.

Adam Spencer
Mar 23, 2025
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