Science Features

Niraj Lal looks at a growing part of our electrical future: the solar cell...

Have you ever wondered why people donate their body to medical science? Or what goes on in the dissection room? Medical...

Plants and animals seem worlds apart, but in some important ways, we are more like plants than we realise...

Is earthquake prediction for California truly a problem beyond the powers of science, or is there something that...

Of all the slang names for the British, none is more iconic than 'Limey'. While the the term provokes...

A massive star ends its life with a BANG – a supernova - seen on Earth as bursts of energy in the form of light,...

Rheanna Sand gives us an insight into how deadly toxins can be used to serve, rather than to harm, humans. She takes a...

你可曾想过时身体会发生什么变化it is donated to a medical school? Have you ever wondered what it...

Lise Meitner’s name is to many an unfamiliar one, occasionally found somewhere amid the pages of a text on nuclear...

Unless you’re shot in the head or hit by a bus, your immune system has a major and direct influence on your life span!...

First came fire. Cavemen rubbed sticks together and there it was, a source of ‘artificial’ heat and light, giving us...

The tale of antiquity's greatest mathematician, Archimedes, leaping from his bath and bustling naked through the...

Bees are being trained to detect drugs and explosives...

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion...

Antimatter can make anything - even anybody - vanish merely by touching it. But at the moment antimatter itself appears...

“Love is the drug and I need to score,” sang Bryan Ferry in the seventies, earning him a smash hit and a small fortune...

We’re all searching for happiness, but do we really know what this is or where to find it? Douglas E. Richards gives...

It is the stuff of nightmares - a society so wound up in the legal system that no-one is allowed to tell you the truth...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland is now back in operation. By smashing particles together at...

For anyone fresh out of frogs and tempted to kiss a toad instead, this article has a word of warning. Although certain...

Noam Chomsky, a rookie professor at MIT, published a ground-breaking book called Syntactic Structures, which set out a...

Swine flu, SARS, Bird Flu, HIV, Dengue, Hepatitis C, Ebola - the human race is awash with new infections - but where...

Sure, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and has received a number of other honours, but has Sir Tim Berners-Lee yet...

Is urine bad? Yes, when it ends up on the bathroom floor. What can be done to avoid these unaesthetic accidents? As...