Divya Sehgal

There are plenty of bizarre animal mating rituals out there – some like ours, some not so much.

If you were lost at sea being continuously submerged in water would soon affect your body.

When it comes to biomass, it's not the size that counts...

When you burn off those extra pounds, the fat is transformed into other by-products through a series of difference process.

Jams and preserves are excellent at keeping bacteria at bay, so make sure you concentrate as to why.

Some high flyers of the bird world can fly further and for longer than any long-haul flight we would be able to endure.

It might seem like hay fever follows a seven-year cycle, but that's more to do with humans' love of patterns.

It's a bright idea to use eco-friendly lightbulbs.

Despite efforts to clean up the Mediterranean sea, it is still one of the most polluted oceans on Earth, but just how bad is it?

Chances are they're happening all the time, you might just not recognise it.

Studies have shown that chewing gum may help out your brain, from helping you avoid distraction to reducing stress responses.

The apes that we’re descended from probably had pale skin under their dark fur, just as modern chimpanzees have now.

Species recognition varies from animal to animal, but generally they use their senses, just like us.

Both petrol and diesel can expire even under the best conditions, but there are ways of treating fuel to be able to store it for longer.

For the entirety of the UK to depend on wind power alone we'd need an awful lot of turbines and more than the occasional breeze.

If you could survive a journey into the hot, busy centre of the sun what would you hear, if anything?

Eureka! You can float in your bathtub by increasing the water's density. However, you're going to need an awful lot of salt.

Satellite oceanography is a technique that measures the minute variations in sea-level to map the topography of the sea bed beneath.