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.
Gender differences? It’s all in our head
New research has shown that the brains of females and males have different patterns of connectivity, possibly alluding as to why men may not behave the same as women. In this impressively large study published by PNAS...
Extinction, death and dinosaurs
Rosamund Pearce writes for I, Science on resurrecting the extinct
The magic of metamaterials
Keir Little talks about Harry Potter, US Defense research and the creation of a new frontier of science with Professor Sir John Pendry
The invisibility cloak & Metamaterial-enhanced solar cells
Taking a closer look at metamaterials
Frozen rainbows and corkscrew lasers
Professor Ortwin Hess speaks to Keir Little about his research