In Short

Lawrence Jones, CEO of UKFast, and Chris Smith, of the Naked Scientists, in conversation...

How does the liver repair itself so well?

Hundreds of tiny robots that together are greater than the sum of their parts.

Singing Scientist Rishi Nag wrote us a Christmas song...

A new way of hunting down cancer is much more accurate than previous attempts

How to cut down on carbon and waste this Christmas!

A new device produces clean water and superheated steam using solar energy.

A new device that can perform single cell biopsies.

Will toddlers with good language skills still be doing well in 10 years time?

A tiny version of a human placenta will help investigate mysteries of pregnancy.

Soft robots need a nervous system, too

Imagining a threat activates the same brain process as real exposure.

Scientists have been using gallium to poison bacteria...

Tackling malaria family planning through computer modelling

Can we use our bodies to fight back against cancer?

Reprogramming your skin cells could one-day fight skin cancer.

An international team of scientists have detected light from the most luminous galaxy known...

How WW1 impacted how we treat head injuries, then and now.

Will AI be making the medicines of the future, and how clever are ravens?

Non-genetic traits inherited between generations are rarer than previously thought, according to a new study in Cell.

How do we learn about the genetics of cancer?

This month's highlights from the world of neuroscience research...

How can we observe things we can't see?

After a millennium of fighting tuberculosis, we still cannot eradicate it due to emerging antibiotic resistance, but...