Biology
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15 December 2016
Marco Cherin and Chris Smith step back millions of years into mankind's past... Marco - We discovered new human-like footprints dated at about 3.66 million years in the known site of Laetoli,...
28 November 2016
Could your gut bugs be playing a role in how your DNA is being expressed?
28 November 2016
A new technique could make it easier, and less traumatic, to get over phobias.
14 November 2016
Elephants have extra copies of a gene that protects against cancer...
14 November 2016
The parasites that cause African sleeping sickness can hide in the skin of healthy people...
14 November 2016
The heart begins beating much earlier than first thought...
14 November 2016
To celebrate Hallowe’en, I’ve picked the scary-sounding fruit fly gene Ouija Board as our gene of the month.
14 November 2016
Duncan Odom is figuring out the control switches between different species and how they contribute to the incredibly...
14 November 2016
Emma Farley's work focuses on understanding exactly what the switches in our genome look like, and how they...
14 November 2016
To shed light on the dark matter of the genome, I spoke to Wendy Bickmore - one of the organisers of the Genetics...
08 November 2016
How did we get to the modern human?
08 November 2016
Could we examine DNA that is 3.8 million years old?
08 November 2016
What do you study when researching skeletons that span millions of years?
08 November 2016
The earliest stone tools were assumed to have been intentionally made by our pre-human ancestors but maybe there's...
08 November 2016
Could the discovery of fire have been the cause of man's big brain?
08 November 2016
How are Eurasian jays teaching us about what it means to be human?
08 November 2016
Is the ability to believe in ritual and religion proof of a higher form of intelligence? Possibly not if Lee's...
08 November 2016
Is our obsession with social networks and relationships the one thing that makes us special?
07 November 2016
Roswell High, Area 51 and Redndlesham Forest - all are places were aliens have been reported...
07 November 2016
When we're searching for life in our universe, what are we looking for?
07 November 2016
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey through the universe and questions what intelligence is...
07 November 2016
...but if we can't travel to them, will the discovery be all that profound?
31 October 2016
What does a marmot have to do with the shower scene in psycho?
24 October 2016
Scientists are hailing this annoucement as the 'tour de force' of embryology because it could pave the way...
24 October 2016
As winter approaches, Kat sees how we can keep warm by scrutinizing the science behind heat loss...