Surfers at a competition in New South Wales were in for a surprise when they found themselves in the company of a large spinner shark. Spectators saw the shark leaping in and out of the water near ...

One thing I've already learned from doing News of the Day posts is that news travels fast, at least during tennis-dense periods of the kind currently underway on the hard courts of the U.S. and ...

If you're a gambling man, I would put a fiver on a lot of Web-based April Fool jokes tomorrow being ChatRoulette-related. Andrey Ternovskiy's idea has, over the past three months, made a lot of ...

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At others, however, such changes end up pushing the show over the edge, so it’s worth looking at some of the most infamous “jumping the shark” moments in television (including, of course ...

Scientists have calculated the water temperature at which tiger sharks are most active and abundant. They say the sharks, which are second only to great whites in attacking people, prefer a balmy 22C.

The sharks commonly found in these waters, such as the piscivorous blacktip and spinner, are generally not aggressive toward ...

Word of Mouth Jumping the shark and Groundhog Day How TV and film can deliver new idioms into common parlance. 2 mins ...

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

On Radio 4's Word of Mouth, Michael Rosen is joined by Gareth Carrol, Senior Lecturer in Psycholinguistics and author of Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics: Modern Idioms and Where They Come From.

Humans are killing sharks at a much faster rate than sharks can repopulate. Sharks mature slowly, have slow reproductive rates, and produce few offspring—all of which makes them extremely vulnerable ...

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