Viruses exist at the boundary between living and non-living matter, while skin is a living interface between physics and ...

The Dublin based Livewire Publications has produced a new collection of essays titled Science & Capital - Radical Essays on Science & Technology, with the intention to; “bring together some of the ...

A study of millions of life science papers revealed that manuscripts with women in key authorship roles spent longer between ...

An “escape from living a normal, mundane life,” is how one reader called her lab research as a grad student. Another mentioned the “moments of wonder that punctuated the darkness.” Yet another ...

When someone "hurts our feelings," do we feel physical pain? Is altruism the challenge to evolutionary tenets that many have claimed? How will plants adapt to global warming? Young scientists tackle ...

Many brilliant products of research end up feared and rejected by the mainstream society. Technologies such as vaccinations, genetics in agriculture or animal models in medicine can save lives, feed ...

This may come as a shock to you, but science has something of an issue with sexism. I’ve written about this many times, and you can probably find a few hundred thousand more words about it elsewhere.