Science Features

Electric ferries and digital communication between ships could help in the quest to decarbonise maritime transport, a...

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick built ball-and-stick models to help discover the structure of deoxyribonucleic...

Ever wanted to know what that The Naked Scientists get up to when they go on tour?

Micro- and nano-robots built for medical purposes have the potential to venture deep within our bodies to repair damage...

We spend so much time looking at the stars that we often forget we have a Final Frontier right here on Earth. Even...

Lightweight electric mini-cars could soon be a common sight on the streets of Europe’s cities thanks to longer-lasting...

The latest state-of-the-art planet-hunting telescopes reveal a Universe filled with the potential for life and...

Our gene of the month is more at home at a rave than in a labUnlike most of our colourfully-named genes, this one was...

A recent study has seen microplastics in the headlines: 40 river beds in urban, suburban and rural regions of northwest...

Using European plant and dairy waste as an alternative to soy-based animal feed could see a big drop in agricultural...

Oceans are noisy. Shrimps snap their claws, whales sing to find a mate and dolphins echolocate to find food. However...

A Roomba-like ocean trash collector modelled on a whale shark and a microplastic filter made from jellyfish slime could...

You could call it fatal attraction. Drawn by artificial lights in our brightening night-time world, animals find their...

Crimes that involve chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) materials pose a deadly threat not just to the...

How can a transaction between anonymous individuals, with no independent oversight, ever be trusted? Welcome to the...

Landfill is both ugly and polluting. But a new breed of technology promises to make it a thing of the past,...

I often get a rock or a twig for my birthday. It probably sounds a bit odd, but you see, we lichenologists - people who...

A fiery gene that suppresses dwarves.

What is Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and how can we better monitor and treat it?

The acoustic qualities of a rock shelter may have been a key factor in its selection as a site for rock art and...

We have all been there. You have just sat down, perhaps on a train or in a lecture, when the person next to you sneezes...

How dinosaurs turned into modern-day birds...

Married people who work from home report feeling happier than they were before doing so,

A guide to the latest genome editing technology...