Do you want brains with that?
Anand Jagatia takes a look at prions, the bad behaving proteins
Ancient traces of water found on Mars
For a vehicle designed to last just 7 earth weeks, Opportunity has done remarkably well. Ten years to the day since the rover first landed on the surface of Mars, its new analysis of some of the oldest rocks ever found there show environments potentially suitable for life were aroun...
A trip down memory lane
Utsav Radia on why and when you stop remembering your early years
A grand genome: the new cost of genome sequencing
In 2003, the Human Genome Project was declared complete. At a cost of around $3 billion and taking 13 years, for the first time we had a sequence of around 99% of the human genome.
The epigenetic revolution
Keir Little on research that redefines our knowledge of inheritance
Smoking is neither cool nor clever... sometimes
Anand Jagatia discovers that one beast breathes nicotine, not fire
MDMA - a new high in research?
Philippa Skett discusses the benefits of ecstasy, and the laws limiting science
Hubble gives us further insight into distant galaxies
18 years after the famous Deep Field image, a series of photographs from the Hubble space telescope are giving us a new insight into extremely distant galaxies that formed soon after the big bang.
Maybe you should sleep on it...
Did you, like everyone else, vow to get more sleep this year? Sleeping is common to all animals and a vital part of staying healthy and alert. However, when we sleep we are missing opportunities to be more productive, and by switching off we leave ourselves vulnerable to attack.
Hypervelocity stars discovered trying to escape the galaxy
20 candidates for a new type of hypervelocity star have been announced by an international team of astronomers.
Denial on ice: the polar vortex of confusion
The polar vortex that swept across North America this holiday was one that left both the ground and politicians rather frosty, albeit for different reasons.
Why solar cells prefer Adele over Beethoven
Could Miley Cyrus help lower your energy bills?” asked the Daily Mail. The answer: probably not, but ambient noise could increase the efficiency of solar cells, researchers at Imperial College and Queen Mary University of London have found.