Great Moments In Science

With our planets spread far and wide - and no super-sized Earths - we're nothing like the other solar systems we've found.

If mobile phones don't cause cancer, why did two US studies show they do?

5G promises incredibly fast download speeds - but what about those cancer rumours?

When it comes to making gold, alchemists never stood a chance. For that magic you need cataclysmic collisions, dying megastars and black holes.

Gold can come from jewellery shops, bank heists, Mints and mines. But where is gold made?

When a balloon pops, sometimes it leaves lots of small fragments of rubber, and sometimes it leaves just a couple of larger pieces. What's going on?

Hard, soft, smelly or blue - there's a cheese for every occasion. But is it time to rethink our relationship with this delicious dairy product?

Easter Sunday can fall in March or April, but the date is definitely not random.

Clothing is made of threads, which are made of smaller-still fibres. And that's where the dirt hides.

Until recently, scientists couldn't work out how a washing machine actually lifted the dirt out of clothes.