Science Features

Is athletics at high altitude likely to break high-jump records? Can a weight-lifter gain an unfair advantage from a...

Cutting-edge research in epigenetics - the ways in which the environment can affect the behavior of genes - is changing...

Can I catch infectious diseases from my dog? And can they catch infections from me?

With modern computers becoming ever more powerful, they have become an indispensable tool for the design of engineering...

A genetic screen tells your doctor knows you are at increased risk of getting cancer. You’d want to know, right? Or...

Chicken eggs can be turned into incubators to produce disease-combating antibodies against human infections...

Parasitic worms that live in our intestines are currently being tested as medical treatments for diseases such as...

And has life evolved elsewhere in the Solar System too?

一个新的高温航空航天材料箴言ed to be elusive so far, however, the candidate materials have to...

How do materials scientists process strong, deformation-resistant blades for gas turbine engines? What developments...

With the precision design of superalloy materials we are able to manufacture materials that can cope with most of the...

What is steel? How have the production methods for making it changed over hundreds of years? What are different kinds...

Decisions are not made equally. Situations, fatigue, hunger and a taxing day can all influence how we appraise and feel...

Fresh water is a precious resource. How can the use and abuse of this resource exacerbate or manage water poverty in...

Your memories may be less reliable than you think. Research has shown that not only do our memories often play tricks...

Toby Fountain does something rather strange when he checks into a hotel: bags deposited unopened at the room's...

What can chemistry do to make a greener future? Aaron Page envisages a carbon-neutral future based on the cutting edge...

Over the last 40 years, drugs have been developed that, as well as performing their original purpose of helping those...

不到5%的氮添加到作物的费用d animals ends up as meat in our mouths. The rest is wasted and...

In a world with ever-increasing energy demands and pollution, clean and abundant energy is urgently needed. The Sun...

The psychedelic drug psilocybin, the active principal of magic mushrooms, was once thought to have promising medical...

Meteorites on the open market routinely fetch a higher price than the equivalent weight of gold. But how does this...

Ocean deadzones are triggered by nitrogen-fuelled bursts of microorganisms. So how does this happen and what can we do...

Almost 70% of the energy produced by a car engine is lost, mostly in the form of heat that exits along the exhaust pipe...