Science Features

How the Nazis were stopped from obtaining "heavy water", an ingredient key in making an atomic bomb.

Could we use nature’s own resources instead of pesticides to increase yields?

Is it possible to prevent the ever increasing floods, or do we just have to learn to live with them?

Warmer winters and drier summers might even be having an effect on your favourite bottle of wine.

How much do you really know about the flu?

A single nerve that runs from the brain to the gut may hold the key to treating obesity.

It's not just your pet cats and dogs that have their own personalities...

An opinion piece on the scientific arguments being put forward for 'Brexit'.

Intensive bouts of meditation have an immediate and visible impact on practitioners’ sleeping brainwaves...

A new device is helping police train their brains to make better decisions in risky situations...

Can games increase your empathy or boost your mental health?

Are electric cars the future of transport? And can they really reduce pollution?

By combining the power of computers and theoretical physics, researchers believe they can build a human behaviour...

Your smartphone could become part of a city-wide safety network that can track down stolen goods and warn you if you’re...

Is gluten really something we should all be cutting from our diets? And just what causes coeliac disease?

European researchers are helping humans get to Mars by developing faster engines, solar forecasts and better shielding.

A new way of looking at life considers it a set of self regulating chemical reactions.

A nutritional drink has been shown to conserve memory in people with early stage Alzheimer’s, indicating that it could...

Low-cost machines that can be taught by simply guiding their arms mean that automation is coming...

Beetles, wasps and flies could be at the forefront of the next agricultural revolution...

Technology is helping halt the wave of fake drugs and their often lethal consequences.

Various fields of physics predict we might live in a "multiverse"...

New CCTV software can recognise people based on their anatomy or on the way they walk.

The world’s hardest natural material also has the most enthralling sparkle – these two properties mean that tiny...