Scientists go back to work
Jamie Rickman on the impact of the US shutdown
Most distant gravitational lens yet discovered
The most distant example of a gravitational lens has been discovered by scientists in Germany.
From Trash to Treasure, via Synthetic Biology
Imperial's Team Plasticity on Genetic Engineering
Can’t sleep? It’s not me, it’s you
Amrita Ghosh and Arya Mehta explore solutions to sleep deprivation
Releasing a vaccination for Malaria
Lauren Hoskin discusses advancements in finding a vaccine for Malaria
Jet lag resistance in mice
They don’t suffer like you after a long flight, Fiona Hartley explains
Higgs-tory through the ages: fifty years yields Nobel prize
Philippa Skett gives us an exciting history lesson about the Higgs boson and how its existence was finally confirmed last year
Breakthrough towards curing Alzheimer’s...
Utsav Radia on a new step to neurodegenerative disease treatment
Marsupials don’t stop until they drop
Are you dying for sex? Philippa Skett tells us that if you compare yourself to male marsupial mice, you really arenʼt
Hype, hope and headlines
The relationship between scientists, the media and the public is fraught with the dangers of miscommunication and exploitation. The question of where the responsibility must lie when a patient becomes a victim is not easily answered. This is particularly true of fertility research, an area that...
Hartley Science: Attack of the Hornets
Fiona’s science corner: Attack of the hornets!
New form of matter created from photons
The Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms has created “photonic molecules” by binding photons together, as published in Nature last week.