Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
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Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
Hit me with your best shot: Vaccines have taken centre stage in the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the different types and how do they work?
How can AI systems like those developed to beat humans at games help unlock the secrets of protein function?
A negative result from a medical test means you definitely don’t have the condition, right? Wrong: it depends on the false negative rate of the test and on your individual risk.
How do scientists piece together genomic information from sequencing data? Play these two fun online puzzles to find out.
A study of 200 million-year-old teeth from the earliest mammals provides fascinating insight into how they lived.
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Beyond the five senses: Some bacteria can sense magnetic fields. Learn how they do this and how this could help us design nanorobots.
Fresh water is a scarce resource on our planet – but how many of us are aware of how much water is needed to make the foods we eat every day?
As scientists worldwide try to understand and help tackle the coronavirus pandemic, we take a brief look at what is currently known about this new virus.
Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Vaccines in the spotlight
From gaming to cutting-edge biology: AI and the protein folding problem
How to understand a COVID-19 test result
Microbial genome puzzles
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Insights into magnetic bacteria may guide research into medical nanorobots
Do you know your water footprint?
Coronavirus: the science in brief