It seems that the delicate structures of helices and spirals pervade more of our world than we initially thought. In following a...

Perhaps the Big Brother of the future might be better described as a creepy little sister. I may have used this analogy before, which...

One more example of science fiction becoming science fact. We are another step closer to re-growing body parts to order. This time,...

When I first read the news that a rudimentary biological circuit had been created from clusters of kidney cells, I was both excited and...

Synaesthesia appears to be an increasingly popular quirk to apply to characters in fictional stories. This revelation sent me on a quest...

This is one of those rare times when my posts appear to overlap. In my last report, on the 7th March 2018, I wrote about the potential...

“I’m not worried…” says Jennifer Doudna, the woman who has cracked gene editing, “I’m excited.” I cannot help wondering whether Robert...

Natures laws do not stop at our front doors. As much as we attempt to control it, the science of life has an all pervading control over...

No matter how socially inclusive and ethnically diverse we aim to be, it seems we are all hardwired to seek out those most similar to...

Not keen on your partners Jazz music? Zap your brain with magnetic pulses and you’ll be willing to pay to listen, for a while at least....

The US agency responsible for keeping America ‘safe’, has been hacked by a group called Shadow Brokers, harvesting unlimited packages of...

Millions of years of physical evolution and our complex societal behaviour patterns are no further on from cavemen. A recent article in...

Another post about sleep? Guilty as charged, although this time, the focus is on the importance of movement. We have all seen the...

Most of us who use the Internet, or have mobile telephones, accept that even with privacy protocols in place, the government or another...

For years I made fun of my grandmother for calling me by the name of every family member before landing on the correct one. Now it seems...

First it was pagan ritual, followed by Roman and Greek Gods, and then came Christianity in all its many guises, to wreak havoc on a...

You may laugh, but magic is as alive and well in the twenty-first century as it was in pagan times. How many of us still cross our...

Flatlands, thinking outside the box, blue-sky thinking, all had their day, or so I thought until I read this week’s New Scientist...

Haven’t we moved on from this outdated view of mental illness? The amnesic Finding Nemo character, the ankle smashing psychotic of...

Most people widely acknowledge the efficacy of a sugar pill, masquerading as a cure-all medicine, but according to some scientists,...