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Have you heard the one about the monkey and the Yorkshire pudding? In 2024, Honshu, the Japanese macaque, made global headlines when he escaped from a wildlife park in the Scottish highlands.

The monkey went on the run for five days before finally being found in a local garden, having helped himself to peanuts and a stale Yorkshire pudding that had been put out for th...

If you've ever experienced a sudden, warm, red bloom spreading across your face, neck or chest after a glass of wine or a spicy curry, that's likely to be the feeling of histamine flushing.

While often harmless, it can sometimes serve as a useful warning sign for bigger problems.

This sort of flushing happens because of the widening of small blood vessels just ...

Dark matter is one of the most mysterious things in existence. We can't see it or feel it, and yet it is threaded through the structure of the Universe, making up around 85 per cent of its mass.

It’s the sheer quantity of dark matter woven through the cosmo...

For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has transformed astronomy, delivering images that have reshaped our understanding of the cosmos.

Orbiting above Earth’s atmosphere, Hubble can capture light in visible, ultraviolet and near‑infrared wavelengths, producing views far sharper and deeper than