- Varuna Aluvihare
Although the summer appears to have ended, I thought I would deal with something that provides a perfect opportunity to marry good food and wine: the barbecue.
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- Felicia Huppert
How much do we know about what makes people thrive and societies flourish? We know remarkably little about the positive aspects of living. Felicia Huppert takes us on a tour of her new book.
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- Martin Westwell
The recently discovered traces of ricin in a makeshift laboratory in a flat in London have caused a media frenzy over its potential use in a terrorist attack. What is it?
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- Martin Westwell
My mother-in-law loathes science and loves science. She loathes science because it is used to bulldoze her opinion-making when she is given no choice but to accept an idea because science says it is so.
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- Dalya Rosner
Blasting away at someone's eyes with a powerful laser sounds like a form of torture dreampt up by a Bond villan, however it is becoming big buisiness in the form of laser eye surgery (LASIK - laser-assisted intrastromal in-situ keratomileusis).
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- Gene Mascoli
The Chilean Sea Bass, or Patagonian Toothfish, is a very tasty fish particularly popular in America. Gene looks into why it has suddenly become very expensive and could be getting more so.
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- Kat Arney
The fertility doctor Panos Zavos claimed to have cloned a human baby, while a team of researchers in South Korea also presented their clones to the world. So what's the difference between these stories?
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of cooking including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how does taste and flavour work ?
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- Claire McLoughlin
Claire McLoughlin describes the chemistry of love and what happens when we fall in love, including substances that make us feel turned on, the neurotransmitters involved in orgasm and pheromones, the mediators of sexual attraction.
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- Kat Arney
In this article Kat Arney describes the history of cloning and the techniques that were used to clone Dolly the Sheep, and how embryonic stem cells (ES cells) are made and used.
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