Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological systems to create useful products or devices. It has the potential to create new life forms with extraordinary properties that exist purely to meet ...

It is a rare skill to write for a lay audience and still maintain as high a level of scholarship as Reich achieves here. Readers who enjoy the investigative nature of science will be spellbound not ...

Solutions to problems in science and engineering are often found in structures, organisms and symbiotic relationships already seen in nature. Examples of this include the construction of artificial ...

Dr Adam Kucharski, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, tells Tom Ireland how modelling has provided rapid insights into many aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak. Can you give us an ...

Dr Federico Mayor Zaragoza is the president of the Culture of Peace Foundation and chair of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks (UBUNTU), where he established the World Campaign for the Reform ...

Understanding and innovation in the biological sciences underpin many essential aspects of society, from agriculture and sanitation to the latest medical advances. As a major contributor to the UK’s ...