Lite Science

December 25 is Father Christmas’s big day, giving gifts and presents to all mankind. But just how does he do it? Callum Dinnett discusses the science behind Santa’s night out.

Shireen Zulparquear discusses why we lie and how the amount we lie changes with age?

Vincent Plant discusses the inevitability of human’s high level of intelligence, and the implications this had on our planet.

Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, talks to YouTube Scientist and Wikicast co-host, Simon Clark, about how he makes accurate and informative science videos for a large audience.

Tom Dormer, Online Science Editor, explains the methods used by the Natural Environmental Research Council to boost the RRS Sir David Attenborough’s huge increase in publicity.

Elinor Jones, Print Science Editor, provides some useful hints and tips to those studying STEM degrees at uni.

You’ve heard of grizzly bears, black bears, and polar bears, but prepare to meet the fiercest bear of them all…and he happens to be smaller than a grain of rice! …

Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, for better or for worse. We are connected to friends and family around the world at the tap of a screen …

ALDOUS Huxley famously wrote “take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” Sounds like a dream come true? …

This story really has it all. Really it does; astronomy, physics, chemistry, two dying stars spiralling into one another (resulting in a cataclysmic explosion) and a whole lot of gold, …