Wait... are people actually starting to enjoy science?
Philippa Skett reviews Imperial Festival and the wider public engagement movement
Boosting your brainpower?
Utsav Radia discusses new research on study drugs, and the problems they pose
On the hunt for young blood
Matilda Hays discusses the anti-aging properties of transfusions for mice
Reseachers produce an even greener solar cell
A new solar cell is being pioneered by researchers at the Northwestern University, USA. Rather than using lead perovskite as the conductor to harvest light, the research team developed cells which utilise tin.
Epigenetics implicated in type 2 diabetes
Epigenetic differences are being found in an almost-unlimited number of diseases: cancer, epilepsy, arthritis, obesity. A recent paper published in PLoS Genetics has now found that epigenetic changes may influence how susceptible one is to type 2 diabetes.
You can’t teach an old virus new tricks
James Bezer on the giant virus that is still infectious despite its age
Scientists Discover Dwarf Planet
The newly discovered dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered by astronomers at the Carnegie Institution of Science, Washington last week.
Breakthrough in HIV gene therapy
Philippa Skett on the new gene-editing technique that gives HIV resistance
Debate over PLoS data-publishing demands
The Public Library of Science, the open access publisher of the largest scientific journal in the world, PLoS One, has announced that from the 3rd of March, authors of an article in any of their seven journals must make all data related to the manuscript publicly available immediately upon publicati
More reasons to bee worried
William Hunter tells us how the honeybee is bringing the bumblebee down too
Radiation-free tumour detection method
Diagnosis and treatment of cancer often involves some of the most damaging procedures that doctors would ever intentionally inflict upon a human body.
Ants in your pants? That’s crazy...
Christopher Yates reveals Texas’s invasive venom-proof ‘crazy ants’