Gene editing – the ability to manipulate our DNA – is set to transform the way we battle disease. It offers the hope that inherited genetic...
“Snotsicle” – distinctly unattractive masses of frozen snot – are just some of the challenges of doing science in a place as extreme … source
There have been 55,000 additional deaths in the UK in the ten weeks since the first death from coronavirus, according to the latest figures from the...
The forces of nature we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force. But physicists...
A robotic scientist – that could increase the pace of scientific discovery – has been developed by researchers at the University of Liverpool. The technology is...
No other country in the world has more robots or is putting more money in to robotic research than Japan. Japanese companies already employ more than...
Subscribe to BBC News www.youtube.com/bbcnews BBC science editor, David Shukman, has just returned from China. You can watch a summary of his reports below and at14...
Meet the young entrepreneur who is on a mission to ensure school children in Ghana can pursue their dreams of becoming … source
The Dutch are, on average, the world’s tallest people, but it hasn’t always been that way. So what happened? Scientists believe a number of factors are...
Space bosses are to investigate whether electricity could be beamed wirelessly from space into millions of homes. The European Space Agency will this week likely approve...
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