A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
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A citizen science project travelled over 7000 km to explore the microbial population in students’ mouths.
Understanding Earth’s climate system can teach us about other planets.
Neuroscientist and stand-up comic Sophie Scott explains the complexity and social importance of laughter.
Theodore Alexandrov is taking what he learned from working on the economy and applying it to the chemicals on our skin.
How electrodes placed directly in the brain are teaching us about learning.
Wouldn’t it be great to live without fear? Or would it? Research is showing just how important fear can be.
For thousands of years, nature has produced brilliant visual effects. What is the physical principle behind it and how can we use it?
Watching what happens to the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery with neutron science.
What makes a cell turn cancerous – and how does a cancer become infectious? In the second of two articles on transmissible cancers, Elizabeth Murchison explains what the genetic details tell us.
After four years travelling around the globe, the schooner Tara has returned with a world’s worth of scientific results.
A safari in your mouth’s microbial jungle
Planetary energy budgets
Learning from laughter
The mathematician who became a biologist
How neuroscience is helping us to understand attention and memory
An almost fearless brain
Structural colour: peacocks, Romans and Robert Hooke
Towards a better lithium-ion battery
Infectious cancers: the DNA story
Tara: an ocean odyssey