How humans may soon become an interplanetary species
It’s now been more than 50 years since any human being has set foot on the Moon, but the ambition to do so again has been gathering pace over the last decade or so. But some scientists and researchers...
25 Touko 202536min
The listening hacks that can transform your health
Our everyday lives are filled with sounds of all kinds – birdsong, traffic noise, the music we choose to listen to or is played in shops and restaurants, the list is practically endless. But what impa...
22 Touko 202534min
How new research is combatting Alzheimer’s disease
One in three people born today will develop dementia of some form in their lifetimes. Of these, around 60 per cent will suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Currently, th...
18 Touko 202533min
How microbes are vital for life on Earth, and may even help save the planet
Although we can’t see them with the naked eye, the Earth is populated by vast numbers of tiny living organisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. Collectively, these organisms are known as microbes,...
15 Touko 202527min
How climate change is disrupting nature’s ancient symbiotic relationships
Be it a pair of wolves that mate for life, a pod of female dolphins that hunt together, or a large colony of honeybees all working together in a hive, the natural world is filled with relationships of...
11 Touko 202531min
How catastrophes have shaped the world as we know it
The history of the Earth is littered with dramatic events that have shaped the planet itself and the lives of the human beings who live on it in profound ways. Be it floods, famine or disease pandemic...
8 Touko 202536min
How mathematics shapes human creativity
It’s commonly believed that the arts and the sciences have little in common with each other. The distinction that’s most frequently made is that the arts are creative in nature whereas the sciences ar...
4 Touko 202533min
How climate change impacts the world’s most vulnerable people
When think about climate change, we may think about global temperatures escalating, extreme weather events occurring more and more and sea levels rising. But what effect is all of this actually having...
1 Touko 202530min
