Science Features

Is urine bad? Yes, when it ends up on the bathroom floor. What can be done to avoid these unaesthetic accidents? As...

What will the vaccines of tomorrow look like? Recent advances in crop technology mean that we are able to produce...

What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the...

In 1943 a chemist working in Basel became the first person to experience the effects of LSD, albeit by accident. But...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Physics is full of surprises, but none so great as the discovery that 95% of the mass of the Universe is invisible to...

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the...

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can...

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In...

Why am I so cranky when I don’t get enough sleep? And why was it all better once I had a good night rest?

Picking scabs. We all do it, and funnily enough, we all squirm when we think about it...

Simpsons fans will know only too well the opening sequence to the cartoon in which Homer discovers, during his commute...

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint...

Since scientists discovered how DNA behaves like a giant genetic recipe book encoding the entire suite of proteins...

Every day our bodies are assailed by microbes of all descriptions, but for the most part we successfully fend them off...

Recent Mars missions have produced compelling evidence for what was once a wet world, where life could well have...

The European Parliament voted recently to include CO2 emissions from the aviation industry in its carbon trading scheme...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

Do microscopic fossils hold the key to understanding climate change? Scientists studying tiny marine shellfish called...

Scientists have brought the world one step closer to the creation of the first artificial organism with the recent...

The feasibility of a female oestrus amongst humans had been dismissed by the masses. But now a study of tipping amongst...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

Scientists recently spotted a planet being born. It's just formed and is still enshrouded within the disk of dust...

Just as winter follows summer, the chances are you'll catch a cold this winter - but what is the sticky stuff that...