Weird & Wonderful

Sugar cattle, chocolate and giant sperm: 10 extraordinary insect facts © Getty Images

Extraordinary insects Sugar cattle, chocolate and giant sperm – welcome to the weird world of insects

Supermassive black holes, like the one in this illustration, may have played a key role in transforming the nature of gas in the early Universe © ESA

Twitter Q&A "What's your favourite black hole?"

© ESA/NASA

Galaxy pictures 23 of NASA's best images of space

Freddie Mercury of Queen © Paul Natkin/WireImage

Freddie Mercury Why did the Queen frontman sound so good?

14 amazing photos from the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2018 © Pilar Oliva Vidal (University of Lleida – ETSEA, Spain)

14 amazing photos from the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2018

5 strange things you did before you were even born © Getty Images

Pregnancy 5 strange things you did before you were even born

Flying squirrels glow pink in UV © A. M. Kohler et al

Flying squirrels glow pink in UV

A man rides a cart over the frozen 'Lake Cildir' in Aradahan Province of Turkey © Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

You think you’re cold? Here are some amazing photos of chilly people in freezing places

10 mathematical reasons you're not a millionaire… yet © Getty Images

Everyday science

10 mathematical reasons you’re not a millionaire… yet

InSight sends back first selfie from Mars © NASA

More InSight selfies from the surface of Mars, please…

True or Poo? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti is available now (£9.99, Quercus)

Can you separate the truth from the poop in these animal facts?

The Solar System’s top 20 moons ranked. Why? Because we can… © NASA

20 of the most amazing moons in the Solar System

Earth’s Final Frontier: 10 of the most mysterious places in the oceans © Magic Torch/BBC Focus magazine

10 of the most mysterious places in the oceans

Adapted from Everything You Know About Planet Earth is Wrong by Matt Brown, publihsed by Batsford. Illustrations by Sara Mulvanny.

Five “facts” about planet Earth that are completely wrong

PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 28: Justin Rose of Europe lines up a putt on the 7th green during the morning fourball matches of the 2018 Ryder Cup at Le Golf National on September 28, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Golf: the neuroscience of the perfect putt