Science Features

One of the fun things about working in science is the scientific meeting. Lots of free tea and coffee, buffet lunches...

I am supposed to write about one of my great passions, drinking wine.

The life of a laboratory animal is not generally an enviable one. However, for some fruitflies in San Francisco it must...

This article looks at how influenza (flu) was discovered, how influenza spreads, infects people, and grows, how to...

"Neanderthal" was once used as an insult; a term for a stupid, brutish oaf but who were Neanderthals, and how...

Can we all be brilliant? Bit by bit thousands of researchers are trying to untangle the workings of the brain. But how...

Photo-therapy is the term used to describe treatments which use light to achieve their effects. But how do these work...

The recently discovered traces of ricin in a makeshift laboratory in a flat in London have caused a media frenzy over...

Radiologist Bob Bury investigates some of the new 'scanning' technologies, which have revolutionised medical...

Peter Brennan describes how smells called pheromones can influence our sexual behaviour and how pheromones work...

Previously dan looked at relatively simple dreams in which this pattern readily could be perceived. Now we shall see...

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) aims to regulate the trade in animal and plant...

Coincidences are just waiting to happen. For all those times you've witnessed uncanny events, or had cause to...

阿德尔着眼于建立一个一个的螺母和螺栓imal from genes right up to bones, and discusses similarities between...

What is a smell?

Developments in biological science, have led to a massive increase in the amount of data available in biology and...

The chemistry of cooking, including what chemical changes occur in food when we cook it, and how taste and flavour work...

生育医生帕诺斯扎沃斯声称cloned a human baby, while a team of researchers in South Korea also...

Caffeine seems to be vital for the functioning of the modern world, from keeping drivers awake to getting that last...

Are the days of private thoughts numbered? A new development in neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (...

A material designed originally to help rockets blast into space (Cytomatrix) is now helping scientists in America to...

A report was published warning that Britain's prosperity will suffer if the government does not come up with new...

Discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen almost by accident, X rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes...

Dan starts a three part series on dream interpretation. He starts by looking at how theoreticians have viewed dreams,...