Yifu Ding
The UK government has set its most ambitious climate goal ever: a net zero emission by 2050. On 2nd May,...
Phil Fernandes
Image Description: cast of the skeleton of Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis fossil Researchers have discovered a new species of...
Sam Sussmes
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have genetically modified chickens to produce medical drugs in their egg whites,...
Duncan Johnstone
Meeting healthcare needs affordably is truly a global challenge. Rapidly expanding populations, fast changing lifestyles and demographics all over the...
Raven Lirio
On February 13, NASA officially declared the end of Mars rover Opportunity’s mission on the red planet. After a long...
Anonymous
Photo credit:Â Evva Christmas is coming. The shops are full of Christmas family packs and what is now the traditional start...
Naomi Housego Day
Image Description: a tiger. Zoos are no modern issue. The origin of zoos can be traced to animals captured by...
Andrew Lewis pithily tells us in a 2010 Metafilter discussion that ‘If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the...
Sophie McManus
The BBC’s ‘Horizon: Mend Me’ programme, aired this week, was a whistle-stop tour through the outstanding –and often unsettling– progress...
James Ashworth
Image Credit: Chris McAndrew (CC BY 3.0) The Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation will defend the Government in...
James Ashworth
The origin of life remains one of the greatest and most contentious problems of science and society as a whole....
Ella McPherson
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) affects around half a million people in the UK, though its impacts spread much wider, devastating the...
The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to reverse-engineer mammalian brains and create virtual interactive simulations. Its aim is to...
Emily Hudson
Featured image description: A screencap of a scene from film The Martian, featuring some human pod-like structures on a rusted,...
Andrew Tinkler
Since the dawn of humanity, we have decorated our walls and created striking artwork using vividly coloured compounds. From earliest...
Carla Fuenteslópez
Researchers from the University of Bristol explored a potential function of adipocytes regarding wound healing. These ‘fat cells’ have several...
Ella McPherson
For such tiny insects, mosquitoes pack a large punch. Responsible for over 800,000 deaths per year worldwide, they are the...
James Ashworth
Image Credit: CDC Global We all know that coughs and sneezes spread diseases. The problem is that these days, things...
Jessica Prince
In 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson made history as the first women to qualify as a physician and surgeon. Since then,...
