Science in the clouds

In recent years, the trillions of bacteria living in our guts have risen from obscurity to stardom. Hyped press releases claim that probiot...

Now happily living on land, our Devonian ancestors tried many ways to get out of the murky waters. Jenny Clack has been studying the water-...

If you had the choice, would you like to live until you’re 130 years old? New research in fruit flies shows that manipulating a single gene...

For most people ghosts and spirits are part of the imaginary, but a few are truly convinced they can sometimes feel a strange presence near...

Plant science is probably one of the least appreciated fields of life sciences, and yet, perhaps no other research area has produced as man...