The world’s leggiest animal has been discovered in Australia

The eyeless, subterranean creature with 1,306 legs discovered 60 metres underground is the first ‘true millipede’.

Bruno Alves Buzatto, The Conversation

· Dec 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

MDMA, the drug used in ecstasy, can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder

One year after their last MDMA-assisted psychotherapy session, more than 80% of study participants reported improved feelings of well-being.

C Michael White, The Conversation

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Adrian V Hernandez, The Conversation

· Dec 23, 2021 · 09:30 pm

50 years ago, an engineer at the Beatles’ record company conducted the first CT scan of a skull

Godfrey Hounsfield was a brilliant, intuitive inventor.

Edmund S Higgins, The Conversation

· Oct 03, 2021 · 11:30 pm

3,600 years ago, a space rock wiped out an ancient city – and possibly inspired a Biblical story

New research reveals evidence of what might have happened long ago in the present-day West Asian city of Tall el-Hammam.

Christopher R Moore, The Conversation

· Oct 01, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Out to solve a 180-year-old puzzle, scientists rediscover Maharashtra’s first endemic tree

‘Croton gibsonianus’ is the only tree restricted to the state, a study finds.

Vinaya Kurtkoti

· Sep 02, 2021 · 01:30 pm

Where is the fountain of youth? In the stomach

By transplanting the microbiome from young mice into the older ones, scientists rewound ageing in rodents.

John Cryan, The Conversation

· Aug 14, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Darwin was wrong (and right) about sexual selection, suggests new research

Researchers found that sexual selection is most pronounced not when potential mates are scarce, but when they are abundant.

Tamas Szekely, The Conversation

· Jun 27, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Scientists at Cern may have stumbled upon a new force of nature

After analysing trillions of collisions produced over the last decade, physicists may be seeing evidence of brand new physics.

Harry Cliff, The Conversation

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Konstantinos Alexandros Petridis, The Conversation

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Paula Alvarez Cartelle, The Conversation

· Mar 27, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Monitoring a mosquito-like aquatic insect may help in predicting cholera outbreaks

Certain species of chironomids harbour outbreak-causing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, a study has said.

Sahana Ghosh

· Jan 31, 2021 · 09:30 pm

A new discovery can explain why the universe has less antimatter than matter

Studying the world on the smallest scale is our best chance to be able to understand what we see on the largest scale.

Lars Eklund, The Conversation

· Dec 24, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Scientists created diamonds in mere minutes by mimicking the force of an asteroid collision

Our research marks the first case of both normal diamonds, as well as Londaleite, being produced in a lab setting using only intense pressure.

Dougal McCulloch, The Conversation

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Jodie Bradby, The Conversation

· Nov 23, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi

New fossil evidence shows fungi may have evolved several hundred million years before plants.

Katie Field, The Conversation

· May 24, 2019 · 09:30 pm