English, Cutting-edge science
Birds on the run: what makes ostriches so fast?
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What makes ostriches such fast runners? Nina Schaller has spent nearly a decade investigating. |
Cancer stem cells – hope for the future?
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Cancer and stem cells are both topical issues. But have you heard of cancer stem cells? As Massimiliano Mazza explains, this concept may revolutionise the treatment of cancer. |
Healthy horrors: the benefits of parasites
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Matt Kaplan investigates the horrors that dwell within us – should we be changing our view of them? |
Neutrons and antifreeze: research into Arctic fish
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Matthew Blakeley from ILL and his colleagues from ESRF and elsewhere have discovered how antifreeze in Arctic fish blood keeps them alive in sub-zero conditions. He and Eleanor Hayes explain.
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Van Gogh’s darkening legacy
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The brilliant yellows of van Gogh’s paintings are turning a nasty brown. Andrew Brown reveals how sophisticated X-ray techniques courtesy of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, can explain why. |
Investigating the causes of schizophrenia
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Laurence Reed and Jackie de Belleroche discuss schizophrenia – and how functional genomics could help to identify its causes. |
A planet from another galaxy
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As though planets from outside our Solar System were not exciting enough, astronomers have recently discovered a planet orbiting a star from outside our galaxy Johny Setiawan reports. |
Uracil in DNA: error or signal?
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Uracil is well known as one of the bases used in RNA, but why is it not used in DNA – or is it? Angéla Békési and Beáta G Vértessy investigate. |
Moringa: the science behind the miracle tree
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Moringas have long been known as miracle trees. Now scientists are investigating their properties in depth, as Sue Nelson and Marlene Rau report. |
A neural switch for fear
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When something frightens us, should we freeze, or should we investigate? Sarah Stanley describes how scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory are probing the mysteries of the brain, seeking to understand our response to fear. |
