Science Features

Lise Meitner’s name is to many an unfamiliar one, occasionally found somewhere amid the pages of a text on nuclear...

Unless you’re shot in the head or hit by a bus, your immune system has a major and direct influence on your life span!...

First came fire. Cavemen rubbed sticks together and there it was, a source of ‘artificial’ heat and light, giving us...

The tale of antiquity's greatest mathematician, Archimedes, leaping from his bath and bustling naked through the...

Bees are being trained to detect drugs and explosives...

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion...

Antimatter can make anything - even anybody - vanish merely by touching it. But at the moment antimatter itself appears...

“Love is the drug and I need to score,” sang Bryan Ferry in the seventies, earning him a smash hit and a small fortune...

We’re all searching for happiness, but do we really know what this is or where to find it? Douglas E. Richards gives...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland is now back in operation. By smashing particles together at...

For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet...

Is urine bad? Yes, when it ends up on the bathroom floor. What can be done to avoid these unaesthetic accidents? As...

What will the vaccines of tomorrow look like? Recent advances in crop technology mean that we are able to produce...

What happens when a human child grows up with a chimpanzee brother? Does a dog think that a robot dog belongs to the...

In 1943 a chemist working in Basel became the first person to experience the effects of LSD, albeit by accident. But...

What can microfossils tell us about past climate? Christopher Stanton resumes his story...

Physics is full of surprises, but none so great as the discovery that 95% of the mass of the Universe is invisible to...

Surprising as it sounds, one of the world's top tipples a century ago was laced with cocaine. And although the...

Ion channels are miniature pores in the membranes of cells. They're the gatekeepers controlling which ions can...

Flies are creatures of habit - at least that's what the latest research on the fruit fly Drosophila has found. In...