Science Features

Why am I so cranky when I don’t get enough sleep? And why was it all better once I had a good night rest?

Picking scabs. We all do it, and funnily enough, we all squirm when we think about it...

Simpsons fans will know only too well the opening sequence to the cartoon in which Homer discovers, during his commute...

The buzz of a bumblebee is one of the quintessential sounds of summer time. But this ‘slender sound’ and ‘faint...

Since scientists discovered how DNA behaves like a giant genetic recipe book encoding the entire suite of proteins...

Every day our bodies are assailed by microbes of all descriptions, but for the most part we successfully fend them off...

Recent Mars missions have produced compelling evidence for what was once a wet world, where life could well have...

The European Parliament voted recently to include CO2 emissions from the aviation industry in its carbon trading scheme...

I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is...

Do microscopic fossils hold the key to understanding climate change? Scientists studying tiny marine shellfish called...

Scientists have brought the world one step closer to the creation of the first artificial organism with the recent...

The feasibility of a female oestrus amongst humans had been dismissed by the masses. But now a study of tipping amongst...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

Scientists recently spotted a planet being born. It's just formed and is still enshrouded within the disk of dust...

Just as winter follows summer, the chances are you'll catch a cold this winter - but what is the sticky stuff that...

What's the evidence that the world's becoming a warmer place, or are claims of climate change quite literally...

So what exactly is linguistics? Is it all about tape recorders, tongue twisters and dropped "aitches"? Or is...

We tend to think of parasites as evolutionary cheats, surreptitiously taking advantage of their hosts’ hard work while...

Snowflakes form when water vapour condenses directly into ice crystals, and for many years writers have used their...

Equivalent in land area to 14 Isle of Mans, or Rhode Island State twice over, the Louisiana Wetlands are one of the...

International Polar Years commenced in 1882-3, as the inspiration of Austrian explorer and naval officer Lieutenant...

The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a...

There are 100,000,000,000 nerve cells in a brain, surrounded by at least 10 times as many supporting cells...

Ask anyone who made the world’s best violins and they’ll inevitably answer "Stradivari". But science is...