Unblinded by greatness
Philippa Skett talks to the researcher who turned the boson data into the discovery
Antibody treatment for cancer
There is plenty of on-going research in the field of battling cancer, whether chemically, physically or biologically. A research group from southern California is developing a new strategy on improving the transport of medicine within the patients’ body, by creating antibodies which only activate... There is plenty of on-going research
Diagnosing Down’s Syndrome
Utsav Radia on the new antenatal blood test and its potential to detect the genetic disorder before birth
Traditional ecological knowledge: the old versus the new
Nika Levikov on just how old customs can bring us up to speed for the future
7th rock from another sun
Looking at the Kepler Telescope's newest discovery
Apparently money does grow on trees
Fiona Hartley finds it difficult to ignore a golden opportunity for puns
How many species are there in the world?
Philippa Skett discusses the difficulties associated with determining biodiversity
The chaos of colony collapse disorder
Laurence Pope on recent research into the humble honeybee
Can’t sleep? It’s not me, it’s you
Amrita Ghosh and Arya Mehta explore solutions to sleep deprivation
Most distant gravitational lens yet discovered
The most distant example of a gravitational lens has been discovered by scientists in Germany.
Scientists go back to work
Jamie Rickman on the impact of the US shutdown
To sleep, perchance to clean (your brain)
After hundreds of years of hypothesis, the primary function for sleep may now have been discovered.