Reports of the resistance of UTIs to antibiotics are on the rise. Can a new method focused on preventing the bacteria from clinging to the lining of the urinary tract help?

Just when you think you’ve found the lost City of Ithaca, pesky science goes and proves otherwise…

This week’s image is the bacterial hand print of an 8-year old boy, developed by his mother in her microbiology lab.

Sarah Gaunt on how we know whether it’s safe to go for a swim

Faiza Peeran on why the citizen scientists of America collected bacteria to send into space

Anna Ikarashi on how agriculture today will make it harder for future generations to feed themselves

Joanna Blackburn shines light on important but often forgotten organs of the human body

From speed and endurance to cognitive limits, Anne Petzold takes a look at just how far humans can go…

Ureaplasma, normally a resident of the urinary tract, has been discovered to be causing devastating problems for some organ transplant patients

From the origin of life through to the development of language and culture, Charlotte Mykura explores the rise of human beings

Connie Orbach and Nic Rae endure temptation at the Press Launch of Cravings, the new Science Museum show

An ingenious new invention named ‘iChip’ allows detection of antibiotics produced by soil microbes – such antibiotics utilised by humans to fight infection

Leprosy was once thought to be on the verge of elimination. Neil Stoker talks to Professor Diana Lockwood about what went wrong.

From the ingenious to the ridiculous: Hannah Wilson describes startling super biological adaptations

Circadian rhythms run the biological world like clockwork. Madeleine Hurry explains how they work, from the genes in a bacterium to the human brain

Mutations are ticks on the molecular clock, and can now be used to measure evolutionary distances

Why studying our microbial friends may reveal how and why we age

From tens of seconds to billions of years, the rate evolution has no rules …

Extremophiles thrive in the most uncomfortable places on Earth and beyond …

Longitude prize recognises growing antibiotics resistance could be disastrous for global health …

An emerging new field that links concepts of biology to the expression of design – and vice versa …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Senja Barthel uses mathematics to discover more about knots …

Using analogue computation could ramp up the processing power of synthetic life …

From HG Wells’s Invisible Man to Sir Isaac Newton, what motivates scientists to become their own experimental guinea pigs? …

Harmful bacteria selectively ‘eat’ DNA to build antibiotic resistance. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis …

Raising a glass to self-experimenting scientists…

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the cinema to watch The Amazing Spider-Man. When the words “DNA” and “recombination” popped up during the film, I got excited and started thinking. I later asked myself: In reality, how close are we to creating artificial hybrid species? Let’s briefly revisit the idea of Spider-Man, a.k.a. Peter Parker. Parker […]

Forget the huge factories of Apple, Samsung and HP: it seems that bacteria might be able to make faster, smaller and more powerful computers than we can. Biologically based wires and tiny hard-drives have been grown in the lab by a team from the University of Leeds and the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. […]

“The first death in relation to this outbreak occurred on the sixth of January. The second occurred on the thirteenth of January. And, as you may have heard on the news overnight or this morning, the third death occurred late yesterday evening.” Visibly shaken neonatal consultant Clifford Mayes made this statement at a press conference […]

Stop-motion genetic modification! Credit to Pen Hill, Lucy van Dorp, Sam Cavenagh, Vanna Barber and Luis Mulet Planelles. More > Got a taste for stop-motion science? Check out Edible CERN!