Science Features

The illuminating story of colour constancy: why what you think you see and what you actually see are different...

Ultrasound Scans (USS), and now Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allows us to visualise body tissues in high...

Dan looks at dream interpretation again and may reveal that meaningful dream interpretation can reliably be...

Underwater photographer Klaus Jost photographs the great white shark using a neoprene seal as bait in 'shark alley...

The marine ecosystem in Alask has undergone a dramatic ecosystem shift: over just 20 years, previously-abundant shrimp...

Napoleon wrasses are found on reefs across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. However over-exploitation by fisherman due to...

SEX: A short word. Often used. Often used to sell products in fact. Yet it is one of our base instincts, one of our...

Genetic modification (GM) is the heritable alteration of the genetic make-up of an organism...

Why do people often look sideways when they're answering a question? And why do they sometimes look right, and...

The Chilean Sea Bass, or Patagonian Toothfish, is a very tasty fish particularly popular in America. Gene looks into...

We all know about pain, or at least we think we do. Things that damage our bodies cause pain. But do you always feel...

The placenta forms on the uterus wall during pregnancy and, via the umbilical cord, links the baby to its mother. Chris...

In 1953 Cambridge scientists Watson & Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. 50 years later other...

In this article Kat Arney describes the history of cloning and the techniques that were used to clone Dolly the Sheep,...

The joke goes that humans end up resembling their pets. But it looks increasingly like animals are having the last...

Transposons are pieces of DNA that have jumped their way around our genome throughout evolution. What are transposons...

One of the fun things about working in science is the scientific meeting. Lots of free tea and coffee, buffet lunches...

I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.

The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must...

This article looks at how influenza (flu) was discovered, how influenza spreads, infects people, and grows, how to...

"Neanderthal" was once used as an insult; a term for a stupid, brutish oaf but who were Neanderthals, and how...

Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how...

Photo-therapy is the term used to describe treatments which use light to achieve their effects. But how do these work...

The recently discovered traces of ricin in a makeshift laboratory in a flat in London have caused a media frenzy over...