Science Features

Melting glaciers are filling Himalayan mountain lakes too quickly, threatening tens of thousands of lives with colossal...

The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) is a large multi-centre study looking at the connection between...

The brain is probably the most fascinating yet impenetrable organ studied by scientists. One question that remains to...

Research has shown that bald males command a larger harem of females than their hairier counterparts...that is, if the...

Scientists studying the Conus snail have found that it harbours a cocktail of over 50 nerve toxins in its venom, some...

Chris Smith describes how cloning, occuring naturally in your body continuously, will have produced literally metres of...

As the war continues against "lad culture" which, according to David Blunkett, is responsible for boys'...

Nothing that you do is safe. Everything carries an inherent risk, but what is justifiable risk, and how do you assess...

Helen looks at how marine reserves in Florida and St Lucia set up to protect space rockets, and local livelihoods have...

The effects of a stroke depend upon which part of the brain are deprived of blood. Researchers are studying the cause...

在某些情况下基因和疾病之间的联系我s obvious eg. mutations in the gene encoding a single protein lead to...

Blasting away at someone's eyes with a powerful laser sounds like a form of torture dreampt up by a Bond villan,...

Chips that can plug into the brain and translate thoughts to computers, or help paralysed people to move, are no longer...

Water, with its incredible properties, is considered an essential ingredient for life. But how does it contribute to...

Consultant radiologist, Dr. Bob Bury, discusses public perception of risk and how we assess risk in the context of...

By the year 2020, the number of people in the world suffering from blindness will have risen to 45 million. The vast...

Dr. Kat Arney discusses the process of genetic imprinting whereby the expression of a gene, and therefore its effects,...

Or for that matter, if you eat a chilled chilli pepper, what will happen? Dalya considers these questions and...

Nanomedicine, nanotechnology and nanoengineering are the future of science and medicine. Barry Gibb describes how the...

I am organising a public event in Oxford entitled "The Science of Wine Tasting"...

Radiologist Bob Bury puts the case for screening the population for preventable, and less preventable, diseases. and...

How can you be sure the wonderful facts and figures we science writers tell you are genuine? Just think about the...

On May 29, 1953, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary took the last few decisive steps up Mount Everest. Dalya has a look...

A clinical trial testing an Alzheimer's Disease vaccine was dealt a crushing blow when some of patients showed...