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It was summer, and most of Australia was on fire. Seasonal bushfires have always been part of Australian life, but never like those that rang in 2020. Fire fronts met in regions so remote humans rarely visited, and roared towards cities, so hot they created their own weather systems and…

Join Plus+ and get exclusive shows and extensions! Subscribe Today! It seems inevitable that at some point the world as we know it will end. Considering the world events going on right now, some might even argue that it has already begun. In many cases there doesn’t seem to really…

Life during a global pandemic takes on a surreal quality. The ubiquitous presence of social media and a constant fire hose of depressing news can make it particularly hard if you're already feeling anxious. So, we've put together a little round-up of recent science news that we find inspiring, encouraging,…

Since the coronavirus has put a stop to my visits of exhibitions, conferences and festivals, I thought I’d use the pause as an opportunity to share with you some of the artworks that I keep babbling about whenever I give a workshop or a talk but that I never took…

Snow-capped mountaintops are the first thing visitors may spot from the airplane windows when they arrive in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard – that is, if they arrive during the bright half of the year, when the midnight sun can be seen nearly 24/7. During the other half of the…

A team of UK scientists has provided a new estimate for the amount of space rock falling to Earth each year.It's in excess of 16,000kg. This is for meteorite material above 50g in mass.It doesn't take account of the dust that's continuously settling on the planet, and of course just…

A team of UK scientists has provided a new estimate for the amount of space rock falling to Earth each year.It's in excess of 16,000kg. This is for meteorite material above 50g in mass.It doesn't take account of the dust that's continuously settling on the planet, and of course just…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Geoff Evatt: "The vast, vast majority of objects to hit the Earth are really small"A team of UK scientists has provided a new estimate for the amount of space rock falling to Earth each year.It's in excess of 16,000kg. This is…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Geoff Evatt: "The vast, vast majority of objects to hit the Earth are really small"A team of UK scientists has provided a new estimate for the amount of space rock falling to Earth each year.It's in excess of 16,000kg. This is…

About 87 miles southeast of Brussels, the residents of a living library are fermenting away. Some 125 mason jars of bubbling sourdough starters—mixtures of flour, water and microbes—sit in the refrigerated cabinets of the Puratos Sourdough Library in St. Vith, Belgium. Each jar is numbered, and many are named. Sourdough…