helenpilcher

helenpilcher has been a member of Linktree for 1 year and joined in July 2025. The social media accounts linked to from helenpilcher are: • Instagram • LinkedIn • Substack • X • Bluesky Besides social media accounts, helenpilcher has populated their site with: • “They hide in the nooks and crannies of our bed frames, then come out at night to slurp up our blood like a smoothie…” 8 animals that could be nesting in your bed — BBC Wildlife Magazine • These giants are thriving on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. But there's a problem – their eggs aren't hatching — BBC Wildlife Magazine • The placebo effect has a contagious evil twin, and it’s spreading faster than ever — BBC Science Focus Magazine • "It can easily reach speeds of 14 miles per hour. Some say they can reach 20 miles per hour…" Can a person outrun a snake? | Discover Wildlife • Pythons could help develop a GLP-1 drug without the side effects, new research suggests — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Moths may not actually be attracted to lights after all, say scientists — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Can a person outrun a lion? Just how fast is the King of Beasts? — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Could a human outrun a hippo? And what about in water - can a human outswim a hippo? — BBC Wildlife Magazine • 'Pure, intense, brilliant pain': The scientist who got stung for science says this insect is the worst — BBC Science Focus Magazine • “It can cause high fever, extreme shortness of breath, shock and pneumonia – up to 80% with it die without treatment.” 8 most dangerous, deadliest spores on the planet — BBC Wildlife Magazine • A new test claims to tell how well you’re ageing – and even when you’ll die. But I’d rather not know | Helen Pilcher • Experts tested whether cats would help humans in trouble. The results were brutal — BBC Science Focus Magazine • “That innocent question hit me like a lightning bolt." Scientist's two-year-old son inspires discovery of new type of worker honeybee | Discover Wildlife • Scientists found a dead whale 1,288m deep in the Pacific. They filmed it for 20 years – and discovered this | Discover Wildlife • A carnivore has moved into Florida's Everglades – and it's threatening native crocodiles and alligators | Discover Wildlife • The hill I will die on: If Hollywood blockbusters must dabble in science, can’t they get the small stuff right? | Helen Pilcher • Why some cats seem to lose their minds during a full Moon — BBC Science Focus Magazine • This may be the weirdest reproductive trick in the entire animal kingdom — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Scientists have started milking koalas. Here's what they're up to — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Limerick competition, the nocebo effect and alcohol alternatives - ABC listen • 5 saltwater crocodiles tracked through the misty mangroves of Bangladesh. Here's what scientists found – and why it matters — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Just how long do glaciers take to give up their dead? Inside the chilling journey... — BBC Wildlife Magazine • “This huge ‘cloud’ seemed to come out of nowhere. Suddenly frogs started to fall from the sky. I thought a plane carrying frogs had exploded..." — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It's buried under 4,000 metres of ice yet doesn't freeze even though a chilly -3 °C – Discover the 15 million year-old lake that's the weirdest on the planet... — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It might only be two metres wide, but don't be deceived as this feisty stream is highly treacherous and has a 100% fatality rate... — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Statins don't cause side-effects, it's down to your brain — The i Paper • 7 strange but science-backed tips to stop stress before it starts — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Scientists just invented an ‘underwater lawnmower’. It could be a game-changer for the ocean — BBC Wildlife Magazine • This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick? | Science and nature books | The Guardian • I made my husband ill with a few words – nobody is immune to the power of the nocebo effect | Helen Pilcher | The Guardian • Are Your Symptoms Real… or Created by Your Brain? | Helen Pilcher • The best new popular science books of May 2026 • Why learning about your medicine’s side effects might kill you — The Telegraph • "Incredibly emotional." Red-and-green macaws return to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest after 200-year absence | Discover Wildlife • Trick of the mind that means you really CAN think yourself ill • East River DNA reveals secrets of life (and death) in New York | Discover Wildlife • It's big enough to swallow cities, deep enough to hide skyscrapers and inside lies an ancient, thriving 'lost world' cut off from everything above — BBC Wildlife Magazine • "We have watched and waited for this moment." World-first footage shows orangutan using canopy bridge to cross a road in North Sumatra | Discover Wildlife • Should we all be on weight-loss drugs? — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Human eyeballs are literally changing shape. And experts are baffled — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Why identical twins aren't actually identical — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Fungi may survive extreme conditions of Mars and space, say scientists | Discover Wildlife • 10 exploding animals – "Some animals self-destruct deliberately, while others jettison bits of their body or spray foul liquids from their orifices..." — BBC Wildlife Magazine • These crabs are racing up the US coastline – and scientists think they know why | Discover Wildlife • Strange creature found inside jellyfish. Scientists say it's the "first time this behaviour is documented" | Discover Wildlife • 10 toilet dwelling animals: “I felt as though my penis had been severed…” — BBC Wildlife Magazine • What we get wrong about dog ADHD (and why it matters) — BBC Science Focus Magazine • 3 apex predators coexist in this remote Himalayan valley. Camera traps just revealed how they do it | Discover Wildlife • Largest known wild chimp group splits in two – sparking violence and death | Discover Wildlife • It’s official: scientists aren’t funny. But it doesn’t have to be this way | Helen Pilcher • Scientists looked inside a bee hive. What they saw is remarkable | Discover Wildlife • Researchers tracked 9 great hammerhead sharks off Florida and the Bahamas. Here's what they discovered | Discover Wildlife • Testing The Waters - Schlumberger Foundation • Stop what you're doing and watch this 'Jesus Christ lizard' running on water — BBC Science Focus Magazine • It's as big as a Ford Fiesta, as heavy as a polar bear and can contain more than 200 ‘apartments' | Discover Wildlife • “The first thing to go are the eyes. Eyes, apparently, cook very quickly. Flesh follows soon after, and as the animal becomes overwhelmed, water enters its mouth." | Discover Wildlife • Forget birdwatching, I’m into moth-watching: they’re fascinating and misunderstood insects | Helen Pilcher • “They bore the marks of an attack, including rib fractures, internal haemorrhages and specific teeth marks.” 5 animals that kill excessively – seemingly just for fun | Discover Wildlife • “It’s a bit like sea turtle forensics." Scientists looked inside 24 turtles – and uncovered secrets from the past | Discover Wildlife • There's a pink-faced monkey in Japan that bathes in hot springs – for a surprising reason | Discover Wildlife • "I would wonder if I was just seeing things.” Scientists make illuminating discovery in South Carolina swamp | Discover Wildlife • Remote cameras catch rare predator in Californian forest. There are only 500 left on the planet | Discover Wildlife • Behind a waterfall lies a 200-metre-deep elephant cave harbouring a deadly virus that has a terrifying 88% fatality rate | Discover Wildlife • It builds skyscraper cities full of cosy, egg-shaped hammocks 30 metres above the ground | Discover Wildlife • Huge carnivores are roaming the streets of this Ethiopian city. What they're doing could be saving people $100,000 USD per year | Discover Wildlife • The world’s weirdest animal pee is stranger than you’d ever guess — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Scientists looked beneath one of oldest trees on Earth. What they found is astounding | Discover Wildlife • "First-of-its-kind event." Whale shark swims "astounding" 1,200km from Madagascar to Seychelles | Discover Wildlife • Can a human outrun a crocodile? Just how fast are these deadly, ferocious reptiles? | Discover Wildlife • The 'Great Texas Freeze' killed thousands of beloved songbirds. Scientists are worried about what might happen next — BBC Wildlife Magazine • This Book May Cause Side Effects a book by Helen Pilcher - Bookshop.org UK • Birdwatching may slow ageing of the brain, say neuroscientists — BBC Wildlife Magazine • The (very adorable) reason cats prefer sleeping on one side | BBC Science Focus Magazine • How aardvarks are built to eat 50,000 ants a night — BBC Science Focus Magazine • What we get wrong about dog ADHD and why it matters — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Vultures have been caught hiding some wild medieval treasures in their nests — BBC Science Focus Magazine • 10 USA sewer dwellers: Alligators, sea cows, snakes, turtles – the surprising animals lurking in the country's sewers... — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Kidnapped, brainwashed, enslaved: the animal that steals the young and forces them to work — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It's been sealed off for an inconceivable 5 million years and is rich in toxic chemicals. Life shouldn't survive here – yet it doesn't just survive – it thrives | Discover Wildlife • The truth about insomnia – and the surprising ways to stop it for good — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Temporary vaginas, venomous feet and the ability to sweat milk. Australia’s animals are weird — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Back to the future: Genetically modified wildlife • Mystical 'phantom of the forest' caught on camera in remote Asian mountains — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Kidnapping isn’t just a human crime: 7 of nature’s most shocking, brutal – and sometimes ballsy – abductors — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It's the size of 3 Central Parks in New York, could be 8,650 years old – and glows in the dark. Forget the blue whale this beast is the world's biggest organism — BBC Wildlife Magazine • This ancient cave in New Zealand has been hiding a "remarkable" secret — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It can be seen from space and contains a staggering two hundred million mounds, each one nine metres across and two and a half metres tall — BBC Wildlife Magazine • With speeds of 100 miles per hour, it leaves birds like swifts and albatrosses eating its dust. — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Sycamore Gap tree saplings planted across the UK – here’s where to find them — BBC Countryfile Magazine • The (really strange) reason identical twins grow different over time — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Remote cameras catch rare predator in Californian forest. There are only 500 left on the planet — BBC Wildlife Magazine • So a cow can use a stick to scratch its backside. When will we learn that humans are really not that special? | Helen Pilcher • Cow filmed using tool for the first time | Countryfile.com • Scientist Justin Schmidt was stung 1,000 times by 150 species, and ranked the pain. This was his bonkers experiment — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It oozes foul goo from its anus, dribbles globs of saliva and stares with lifeless eyes. This animal is insanely good at faking death — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Scientists blasted moss into space for 9 months. When they brought it back to earth, they were astonished — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Here’s what your poop actually says about your health — BBC Science Focus Magazine • The (very adorable) reason cats prefer sleeping on one side — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Rare 9ft-tall 'camel birds' released into Saudi Arabian desert — BBC Wildlife Magazine • It can be seen from space, is the equivalent to 8 football fields and could be 45 years old - but we have no idea how many families call it home... — BBC Wildlife Magazine • "It dies, roasted alive" – Meet nature’s 10 strangest killers that weaponise fire, wind and heat to kill | Discover Wildlife • Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher • The bizarre smell that makes death contagious to worms — BBC Science Focus Magazine • 10 horrifying, deadly toxins with the power to harm – AND the capacity to heal and save lives — BBC Wildlife Magazine • "Seeing them walk free was incredibly rewarding": 50 giant tortoises released on island in the Seychelles — BBC Wildlife Magazine • 10 most violent animals on the planet: Inside the brutal battles and wars waged with their own kind — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher • Do hibernating animals go to the loo? — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Scientists attached moss to the International Space Station. What happened next "genuinely astonished" them — BBC Wildlife Magazine • "The rats went bananas" Here's what scientists say actually happened on Easter Island — BBC Wildlife Magazine • The animal with the best hearing doesn’t have any ears. Here’s how it works — BBC Wildlife Magazine • helenpilcher.com • The 6 most important lessons about belly fat (and how to lose it) — BBC Science Focus Magazine • De-extinction: is science playing God, or is bringing species back from the dead good for nature? — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Here’s what actually causes high blood pressure (and how to cut it) — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Leading conservationists just decided that genetically engineering wild animals is OK – sometimes. They’re right | Helen Pilcher • The DNA fix that could stop extinction in its tracks – but should we use it just because we can? | Discover Wildlife • Can animals smell death? • How small changes to the way you breathe can transform your health — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher | The Guardian • Great apes with boozy fruit hold key to why humans can handle alcohol — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Eyebrow raising isn’t just for humans. These other animals do it too — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Radical new research shows that deer carcasses could save a giant Scottish bird — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Amazing new footage reveals killer whales using seaweed grooming ‘tools’ — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Scientists wore Dick Cheney masks and were mobbed by crows – here’s why — BBC Wildlife Magazine • The (very adorable) reasons cats get the zoomies after pooping — BBC Science Focus Magazine • We’re on the brink of curing stiff joints before arthritis takes hold — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Do all the animals in Australia really want to kill you? — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Disney’s favourite fish is shrinking – and scientists now know why — BBC Wildlife Magazine • Experts have finally worked out why mandrills have blue bums — BBC Wildlife Magazine • How this massive white bird could soon return to London | Countryfile.com • The animals that get the most drunk (and what it does to them) — BBC Science Focus Magazine • We’re finally understanding what animals are saying to us – and it’s not what we expected — BBC Science Focus Magazine • Scientists are revealing exactly how animals use sound. And their findings are extraordinary — BBC Wildlife Magazine • 10 deadliest rivers in the world including a 'boiling river' that 'cooks' animals from the inside out | Discover Wildlife • The end of food allergies is tantalisingly close. Here are the frontrunners for a cure — BBC Science Focus Magazine