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Scientists are using electronic tags and satellites to track wild animals and build a data network.

From real-life holograms to smart contact lenses – these inventions are bringing science fiction into reality

Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human knowledge

Jimmy Wales told BBC Science Focus the Tesla CEO’s claims are “just factually wrong"

The space rock is actually a ‘quasi moon’ on a similar orbit around the Sun

Scientists are building the clearest picture yet of how we age – right now to your cells and DNA

Not to self: never attempt an invasion of Russia in the winter

These foods could confuse your body’s internal clock and encourage it to store extra fat

Formula 1's 'sustainable' fuels are coming as soon as 2026, but critics are warning this could just be a 'box ticking exercise'

Nations which were ‘barely coping’ failed to feel the benefits of improving happiness

With the Moon out the way, 2025 is the perfect time to catch the Orionid meteor shower

By seeing which animals fall for a classic visual trick, scientists are uncovering how different brains make sense of the world

A deadly fly once wiped out across North America has resurfaced in northern Mexico

The shoes’ design might be getting in the way of the comfort and performance of female runners

Psychology is rife with myths: you only use 10 per cent of your brain; you’re either left-brained or right-brained; your brain has a ‘learning style’. Culture is littered with ideas that would have any decent psychologist rolling their eyes. At 146 years old, psychology is no spring chicken, but compared to something like astronomy, it’s a toddler. Since the subject is still in its infancy, a lot of the early ideas about human thought and behaviour linger, giving rise to misconceptions about how our brains work. While erroneous conclusions about the ‘left/right brain’ idea is relatively harmless, others can get us into trouble. TV in the 90s taught us that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was something only kids had – the unruly, fidgety kind that couldn’t sit still long enough to do their homework. The trouble is, psychology and the early narrative around the condition oversimplified what was happening. As we learn more about the disorder, those assumptions are crashing into real people’s lives and a forgotten generation of undiagnosed people are emerging, having struggled their whole lives. This issue, we investigate why millions are waking up to the new reality of ADHD.

'Ball junkies' are hooked on their toys

Eating healthier diets could transform the food system to be kinder on the planet and improve human lives around the globe

Participants who mixed up their protein sources lost weight and improved their cholesterol, without restricting their calories

It might be a planet, but it’s growing up more like star

Males that spend less energy on sex and more on raising their children tend to live longer

The findings mark a major advancement in our understanding of the world’s fastest-growing neurological disease

A new study has found that habits rule our daily lives, and yet they may be the key to achieving our goals

It's black holes all the way down