Why do we like to listen to tunes when we exercise? Psychologist Tom Stafford searches for answers within our brains, not the muscles we are exercising.
You are far more dependent on satellites than you think.
We have good reason to believe that some of Jupiter’s moons could have life. A new probe mission aims to head there and find out.
More than half the world’s population are concentrated in urban areas, and this is having an effect not just culturally, but biologically too. And advances in technology are adding an entirely new dimension to people’s lives.
While the world economy languishes, paintings and sculpture continue to command dizzying prices. Georgina Adam explains how competitive billionaires, new wealth and the fashions of the super-rich keep values sky high.
There’s less and less time to grab a meal nowadays. But is food on the run bad for your digestion? To find out, enter the world of the competitive speed eaters.
The NASA driver who has clocked up most miles on the Red Planet reveals what it’s really like to be behind the wheel of a space rover.
Nasa's Ladee mission is part of a resurgence of interest in the Moon and it is all down to the fact that we barely understand our cosmic neighbor.
The world’s “first decentralised digital currency” promises financial salvation, but what is it and can it really deliver?
There’s tantalizing evidence that technology could one day allow us to transmit thoughts telepathically between two brains. The question is how far can we go?
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