In Short

It's not just conversations that we share with our mobiles, but also our bacterial...

Despite UK advisory council advice, 'qat' became a Class C drug. Professor David Nutt...

Nathan Adams introduces a confusingly-named protein that's essential for keeping blood flowing: Albumin

Salamanders can grow back entire limbs if they lose them, can this ever be done by people?

A new exhibition at the National Gallery is looking at the science of colour making...

With the onset of climate change, can flooding ever be stopped completely?

Chilean mountaintop blasted off to make way for world's largest telescope, E-ELT

This week the USA has carried out its first executions by lethal injection since April.

Sustainable plastic may be achievable by using compounds found in plant pulp.

Neil Withers finds out how vermilion has been keeping human civilisation looking bright and beautifully red for...

This week a program reportedly passed the 'Turing test'. But what does this actually mean?

Brian Clegg holds his nose to examine one of the real workhorses of the organic chemistry lab: Pyridine

Did violence shape our faces? Study shows skulls evolved to protect against punches...

Are we one step closer to finding extra-terrestrials? Astronomers have just discovered the 'Godzilla of Earths...

Gannets are using fishing boats as fast-food outlets, as Thomas Bodey explains...

Does Nicolas Cage cause swimming pool deaths? Does margarine consumption cause divorce? Tyler Vigen explains why...

Nathan Adams investigates some of the most important molecular machines within our cells, the cytochrome p450 enzymes

This week, the 'Godfather of ecstasy', who made and tested over 200 psychoactive substances, died peacefully...

Brian Clegg reminisces about indoor fireworks and Vesuvian fire with this week's compound: Ammonium dichromate

Meet melatonin, the 'Dracula of hormones', essential in regulating the body's natural circadian rhythm

This week, a farm worker in Argentina stumbled upon a bone belonging to the largest dinosaur to have ever walked the...

This week an explosion and fire in a mine in Turkey claimed almost three hundred lives. But why are explosions such a...

Once a fusty way of keeping moths out of clothes, Brian Clegg explains how naphthalene may have helped bring life to...

This week the Royal College of Physicians criticised the standard of asthma care in the UK. Here's your Quick Fire...