We are 7 billion
But how many could we be? You know, if we really ‘went’ for it...
Supervolcanoes
Are they actually a big deal?
Festive science facts
All the Christmas science you'll need to bore your relatives to death
Barley disease sequenced
Research suggests genome parasites help adaption
Want to save the planet and eat meat? Eat Man
We should return to the food web structure from whence we came
Science Fiction Column
Welcome to Felix’s new, unimaginatively-titled, Science Fiction Column
Finding moonshine
Marcus du Sautoy provides us with an irresistible combination of anecdotes, mathematical mysteries and history in this whirlwind
Students with ‘Parasight’
The science behind the iGem team’s successful project
New anti-psychotic drugs in pipeline
New anti-psychotic drugs in pipeline
Light and death for hospital superbugs
Light and death for hospital superbugs.
The retrovirus conundrum
How do retroviruses insert their genome into host DNA?
Huge leap forward in quantum computing
Imperial researcher moves closer to realising the dream of the quantum computer