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A small asteroid is flying safely by Earth Saturday (Dec. 22) and according to the folks at NASA, it looks just like the mighty hippo in new radar images.

Here's the science behind that satisfying fizz of a bath bomb, plus, how to make your own at home.

Crayfish have to shed their armour to grow, leaving them temporarily undefended. During this time, they show signs of anxiety - but human anti-anxiety drugs change this

In 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth

The human body is amazingly complex, which is why, even in this day and age, we continue to learn new things about ourselves.

An arrow points right. Turn it 180 degrees, it still points right. Turn it again... it points right.

Engineer Patricia Yang won an IgNobel prize for flushing out a universal law of animal urination. Next up? Discovering why wombat stools come out as cubes

In our exclusive extract, dripping with human kindness (well, butter) our heroine Salima receives her daily bread - eventually