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A fun take on the latest science news with enough data to sink your teeth into. Lagrange Point goes beyond the glossy summary and gets in depth with the research from across the world.
Fungal invasions taking over living hosts is the thing of science fiction, but the humble button mushroom is taken steps to start. Often a f...
What caused those large quakes on Mars? How can Mars have big Mars-quakes without plate tectonics? If an impact crater isn't too blame for t...
E.coli is one of the most studied and versatile bacteria, so how can we make it work for us? Bacteria's ability to generate electricity is w...
How does a jellyfish manage to see and learn without a large central brain? Like the Scarecrow of Oz, jellyfish are a without a brain but ar...
There are many different types of treatments for cancer, all of them with pros and cons. Enhancing our anti cancer toolbox requires careful...
What happens when two massive planets collide? How can you end up with a gas giant that's super dense and heavy? how can a planet the size o...
Infrastructure projects and large engineering projects can lead to archaeological discoveries. When you start digging a large sewer network,...
At the depths of the ocean, in freezing waters there is somehow a paradise for Octopi. Off the coast of Monterey, an extinct underwater volc...
How long do you really have to wait after a concussion? Athletes are always keen to get back in the game after a head knock, but how long do...
When whales and humans interact the results can be confusing and messy for both sides. Whether it be noisy boat propellers, or orcas on a co...
Antibiotic resistance is a global challenge, but the solution may come from the natural predator of bacteria. Bacterial infections can be na...
Cracks in metal can ultimately lead to fatigue failure, but is there a way to unwind the damage? Fatigue failure is a serious problem for ev...
Getting an accurate picture of someone's health or vital signs is essential in medicine, but hard to physically do without wires. Invasive h...
Its a huge leap from a single celled organism to a complex multicellular beast. So how does evolution manage it? You can evolve humble yeast...
Chemistry is complicated but it had to start somewhere. The origins of complex chemistry had to be built up from scratch. How did complex co...
The universe scaling work of the NANOGrav team stands on the shoulders of giants to understand giants lurking in our universe. Huge decade s...
Weather in space, can seem far away but it's dazzling effects come with some danger. Aurora localised entirely around a satellite can cause...
When a volcano erupts we're used to imagining damage from lava, ash and even tsunamis. So why were satellites taken out? The colossal erupti...
Batteries power the modern world, but how can we make them more sustainably and last longer. Lithium powers most of our modern batteries but...
Humans are filling the atmosphere with more and more pollution. How does it get out of the air and where does it go? For complex pollutants...
As our climate changes extreme weather events become more common, but what does this mean for ecosystems? Ecosystems and plants that have ad...
Asteroid belts are harder to find than Sci-fi would have you believe. Spotting an asteroid belt is easier in the outer solar system, but clo...
How can tiny bacteria change the entire planet? Greenland is beautiful and covered in glaciers, but they are turning more and more dark and...
Bacteria are masters of survival, pausing and shielding themselves when times get tough. So how do they know when to wake up? The mechanisms...
Understanding the future of the universe requires peering into the past. How quickly the universe is expanding has been an active area of sc...
Electronics power the modern world, but they come at a high environmental and energy cost. E-waste a serious problem as many of the elements...
Your body is constantly communicating about what's happening outside and inside of it, but how can we listen in. When your immune system is...
How does your body pass information along to your brain? The thalamus connects those sensory inputs back to your cerebral cortex but it's a...
Building a habitat on Mars or the Moon is hard work, but it's a lot easier if you can make your own building materials. Animal blood has his...
Seeing how something happens makes it much easier to understand. Biological process can be very hard to capture with images or video. Unders...
Life in a radiation exclusion zone is challenging but not impossible. We find out about tales of survival, endurance and adaption in radiati...
Bacteria uses a clever 1-2 punch to make it through our central nervous systems defenses. The way bacteria can get through the outer layers...
Our oceans and waterways are our largest carbon sinks and they're overflowing with CO2. Too much CO2 in our waterways can cause tremendous l...
Hydrogen comes in all kinds of colours but what does that mean? Hydrogen has a role to play in a decarbonised world as long as we can produ...
Using the JWST to peer into the Cosmic dawn of the universe. The JWST enables researchers to peer into the earliest galaxies in our universe...
Hayabusa2 had an exciting voyage across our solar system, getting into dust ups and even coming back home again with data to share. We've be...
How did birds end up with their trademark beaks? You can broadly group birds into two categories, ancient and modern jaws or beaks. We thoug...
Aurora are stellar examples of high energy physics. You need to be at the right spot to find Aurora on earth, but its not quite the same on...
In the northern reaches of Japan in a idyllic lake, cute green balls of algae are battling for survival. It sounds like an anime, but cute g...
Understanding how our body senses and interacts with the world. Scientists are only now beginning to understand how our body senses the worl...
Too much or too little light can cause serious problems for plants. Light levels are not simply a feast or famine equation when it comes to...
How does chemistry change when you travel to another planet? When it comes to scientific experiments often we can be hampered by our own exp...
What happens when you push water to the limits on earth and in Space? Water has really weird properties especially when it gets really cold....
How do you measure the solar system and the universe whilst being inside of it? Too much light is a problem for astronomers and our solar sy...
Forecasting an earthquake is serious business, but it's not like the weather. Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? Knowing when an earthq...
Peering into the history of brains with some amazing tiny fossils. How did the earliest brains develop? Is a head just an extension of a seg...
Fungi have an amazing ability to spread across continents but stay linked as a family lineage. Fungi can adapt to specific geographic niches...
How is your gut connected to the rest of your body? How does your nervous system connect to your gut? How can you sense pain inside of your...
How can fish keep themselves stable in a fast flowing river? What's the best way to stay on track as a fish? To swim straight ahead fish oft...
How does a single sensor help change your outlook on a planet? A single small seismometer on Mars can help understand Mars' past, present an...