In Short

A new form of 3D-printing has been used to turn out replicas of a patient's organs.

Scientists in America have helped a paralysed man to take his first steps in over 5 years.

How do the parasitic worms that transmit diseases like elephantitis invade the body?

Does being a good parent shorten your lifespan? Yes, at least if you're a burying beetle.

Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly's patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-...

Endangered elephants have fewer offspring if their mothers are stressed when they are born

In this week's podcast, Matt Gunther reveals the toxic history of gelsemine

In this week's podcast, Raychelle Burks tells us of the cool but warming effects of methyl salicylate, better...

A molecular signature in blood informs of the risk of developing age related diseases.

Children who grow up in dusty farm environments are shielded from developing allergies

It's at the heart of the first chemical equation, and makes Hayley Birch think of quiche. This week's...

Cambridge based company aim to develop a completely sustainable highway in West Georgia

Why do the Blue Ridged Mountains inspire so many songs? Maybe it's because of the Isoprene that gives them their...

Even if a clock is accurate to the millisecond, could this be lost over transmission?

The molecular processes which form 'hidden memories' have recently been discovered...

New research suggests that dogs evolved following climate change.

Emilie Steinmark tells us about gluten and gluten intolerance

Simon Cotton explains the explosive history and the dangers to health of the weight-loss drug, 2,4-dinitrophenol

Premature birth is linked to a socially withdrawn personality.

Brian Clegg introduces an exotic chemical dynasty: the Vanadium oxides

Academic success at the end of compulsory education may be down to genetics.

A pill on a string could be used to detect cancer of the oesophagus.

For a decade we thought de-worming boosts school attendance, but is this really true?