MYSTERIOUS: Science - What They Never Told You

Do humans really have a ‘lizard brain’ lurking beneath our rational minds?

It’s a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, but the biological reality is quite different

The Guardian - UK · 15h ago

An ancient shark graveyard has been discovered in an Egyptian desert

Researchers have discovered at least seven different species of sharks in the desert

The Independent UK · Oct 2

Once-common marsupial inching close to extinction across Australia, scientists warn

Cane toad invasion blamed for most of the species decline

The Independent UK · Oct 1

All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

Monkey that resists Alzheimer’s symptoms could be key to developing treatments

Brain and the nervous system may remain altered for months without producing obvious Alzheimer’s-like behaviour

The Independent UK · Sep 30

Countries with more indoor cats are happier, but there’s a catch

Researchers suspect link between cats and happiness is tied to economic factors

The Independent UK · Sep 30

How you eat fruit may affect your heart disease risk

The relationship between fruit juice and heart disease is highly complex, scientists say

The Independent UK · Sep 30

Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi

Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

Scottish space company hails successful ‘hot fire’ test of rocket engine

Skyrora’s successful test at Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute, produced a column of fire and billowing smoke.

The Independent UK · Sep 29

Breakthrough weight-loss drug helps diabetes patients lose a quarter of their body weight

Eli Lilly’s retatrutide works by imitating three separate hormones to manage appetite, blood sugar and metabolism

The Independent UK · Sep 29