Communicating Science

This blog is dedicated to the communication of the sciences. 

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Welcome to Science for the Masses, a science communication blog dedicated to... well, communicating science. It aims to educate, inform, entertain, inspire, and above all, make science interesting and accessible to everyone.

Some posts will be written by me, and others will be reblogs and content written by other people, but no matter who wrote it, full credit will always be given. My main expertise is in environmental science (and all things that encompasses eg ecology, biology, a little physics etc), so I will only write in any great detail about those subjects which I have full understanding of.

Hope you enjoy (and learn a little something along the way)!

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‘Most amazing thing I’ve seen’: readers’ photos of Perseid meteor shower

This year’s spectacular display of shooting stars lit up skies from Wiltshire to Idaho, including sightings of the northern lights

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Climate change may allow the Earth’s oldest, tiniest creatures to dominate — and that's seriously bad news

Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners.

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Watch: The Northern Lights seen from space

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.

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Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution's 'pervasive grip'

Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award.

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Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60

US findings suggesting ageing is not a slow and steady process could explain spikes in health issues at certain ages

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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations

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How we reconstructed the ancestor of all life on Earth

The organism from which all modern life is descended is called the last universal common ancestor - and scientists are still trying to figur

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Is there any point in taking multivitamins? – podcast

Ian Sample hears from JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to find out what the evidence tells us about the over

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Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

Acquaint yourself with matters mathematical

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Yarlung Tsangpo: The deepest canyon on land hides a tree taller than the Statue of Liberty

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon is Earth's largest terrestrial canyon, stretching 314 miles long and almost 20,000 feet from top to bottom

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Would you trust an ant to amputate your limb? Science is showing they are skilled surgeons

A recent study shows that carpenter ants have evolved amputation skills a cut above the rest of insects.

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Physicists solve nuclear fusion mystery with mayonnaise

The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion.

Sometimes, a headline just takes you by surprise...

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Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of inf

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Royal Mint: UK’s coin maker turning e-waste into gold

The UK’s coin-maker opens a new industrial plant to extract gold from old circuit boards.

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Driverless cars still lack common sense. AI chatbot technology could be the answer

Chatbots are much better than traditional driverless car technology at dealing with complex, previously unknown scenarios.

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Theory says complex life on Earth may be much older than thought

Scientists say they have new evidence that complex life on Earth began much earlier than previously believed.