Serious concerns were raised earlier this year, when an american woman reportedly became the first patient to have a urinary...
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Imagine you are on vacation, on the coast of the beautiful Greek Island of Zakynthos. You head north, towards a...
Wash your hands before sitting at the table! I can clearly remember my mum shouting from the kitchen, and...
I remember the first time it happened with painful clarity. The summer sun had burned the Cornish sand a brilliant...
What happens when we send bacteria into space? That’s the question that the team from Project MERCCURI, based in the...
The largest threat to maintaining global food supply is the very act of farming, says a new study published recently in...
Do I need my appendix? The appendix is a thin tube around four inches long found in the lower right...
Muscle Up! The human record for high jump is 2.45m by Cuban Javier Sotomayor - 1.25 times his height -...
A bacterial species normally found in the urinary tract, known as Ureaplasma species, has been discovered to be causing brain...
Enter into the Bacteria Light Lab. Bask in the light of bioluminescent bacteria, learn about the quantum effects of light...
An evolutionary perspective: Who are we? Of the millions of species that have ever existed on this planet, humans have...
2015 Leeuwenhoek Lecture by Professor Jeff Errington FMedSci FRS The cell wall is a crucial structure found in almost all bacteria. It...
I’m surrounded by pictures of my favourite foods: ice creams, biscuits, burgers. But why do I suddenly feel much less...
A study published the journal Nature earlier this month, describes the discovery of a new antibiotic, teixobactin. The discovery of...
"When I was in India in November, we went out to a little village health clinic in Rajasthan, and we...
Bacteria are our ancient enemies, evolving ever more clever ways of outmanoeuvring our natural defences and scientific technologies. For millennia,...
From the ingenious to the ridiculous, the direction evolution has taken in creating creatures great and small never fails to...
"you are probably less safe driving between 4am and 6am than when you are legally drunk" The Latin words circa...
Cuckoo, pocket, analogue, digital - clocks and watches come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but all have the...
When you look in the mirror, you see a reflection of yourself: your eyes, your hair, your body, all the...
From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all species on earth are constantly evolving, albeit some more quickly than...
From well below freezing to boiling water, from the crushing pressure in deep ocean trenches to the thin air above...
This news story was published in the World News section of the Super Science issue (issue 28), as one of...
This isn’t just another way of imagining what future technologies can do for us. There are no promises that we’ll use...
The Imperial Festival ran Friday 3 May to Saturday 4 May and attracted over 10,000 visitors. I, Science...
Every year teams of scientists gather in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to build machines from synthetic life. So far the International Genetically...
What do HG Wells’s Invisible Man, Spider-Man’s foe The Lizard and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? Despite sounding...
Harmful bacteria selectively 'eat' DNA to build resistance to antibiotics. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis and septicaemia by keeping...
You won't be needing these... The mad-scientist stereotype is one of Hollywood’s guilty pleasures. There is the familiar storyline of an...
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the cinema to watch The Amazing Spider-Man. When the words “DNA” and "recombination" popped up...
