A farmer can remember what has happened last year and the year before, and can prepare accordingly. But what about plants? How can they pass on their experience to their offspring?

The University of the Third Age once again teams up with the Ri for an afternoon of fascinating science talks.

Life inside the uterus is not as closed off as you might think. Syed Qadri explores how a mother’s behaviour alters her baby during pregnancy..

What is epigenetics, and why the fuss? Charlotte Mykura explains.

Our DNA endures a constant bombardment of damaging agents, so how does it cope? …

Themes of the last fortnight have been the weather, further research into epigenetics and the many uses of 3D printing …

If all of the cells in the human body contain exactly the same genes, then why don’t all of our body parts look exactly the same? …

Epigenetics questions the notion that genes are the only inherited information and could lead to acquiring superhuman abilities …

India Renziehausen saw Professor Adrian Bird present his prize winning work on Rett syndrome at the Royal Society …

A dollop of science, a dash of comedy and a sprinkling of celebrities are a recipe for success…

A sad soul kills you quicker than a germ. The science behind the healing power of the mind. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. – John Milton, Paradise Lost Neuro-psycho-biology is the lengthy name awarded to the up and coming field of […]

Monarch caterpillar Since Watson and Crick’s seminal discovery of the double helix there’s been an emergent supposition that DNA makes us what we are. This is a savagely simple belief, which has allowed creationists to pick holes in Darwin’s arguments, but also probably reflects why only 40 years later genetic research is at the point […]