Boosting your brainpower?
Utsav Radia discusses new research on study drugs, and the problems they pose
You can’t teach an old virus new tricks
James Bezer on the giant virus that is still infectious despite its age
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.
Scientists Discover Dwarf Planet
The newly discovered dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered by astronomers at the Carnegie Institution of Science, Washington last week.
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
Breakthrough in HIV gene therapy
Philippa Skett on the new gene-editing technique that gives HIV resistance
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.
More reasons to bee worried
William Hunter tells us how the honeybee is bringing the bumblebee down too
The pseudoscience shaking the Shroud
Alongside UFOs, homeopathy and all manners of conspiracy theories, the Shroud of Turin has long been known as a perennial source of pseudoscience.
Ants in your pants? That’s crazy...
Christopher Yates reveals Texas’s invasive venom-proof ‘crazy ants’
Something else worth swallowing
Christopher Yates talks about the new drug touted as a female viagra
Sex, Robots and Rock & Roll
Will Hunter discusses the new robots that can feel human emotions