Insights

Dreams are made of this

September 26, 2010
Sleep is such a natural part of life and yet it remains largely unexplained by science. Leila Sattary finds out what dreams are made of and why sleep is so...

Cloning – unsafe or just misunderstood?

September 17, 2010
Cloning has always been a controversial issue and it’s been thrust into the limelight again recently after the New York Times revealed a British farmer was selling milk from the...

Fighter pilot turned scientist Missy Cummings

September 1, 2010
She was an ace fighter pilot in the US Navy, and now she’s a top scientist – this is a Big Ask you’re definitely going to want to read…Missy Cummings...

The bio-revolution

August 26, 2010
Geneticist and entrepreneur Dr Craig Venter hit the headlines in May 2010 after creating the first example of synthetic life. Leila Sattary asks whether scientists are playing God and weighs...

Bright ideas needed for Deepwater Horizon

August 19, 2010
Three and a half months after the initial incident and oil is still leaking from BPs Deepwater Horizon rig. You wouldn’t think it would be this hard to plug the...

Michael Brooks fights science’s corner

August 1, 2010
Earlier this year, Michael Brooks, science writer and regular contributor to the New Scientist and New Statesman, set up the Science Party – a party that ‘stands for sensible thinking...

European investment

July 26, 2010
Britain’s current competitive advantage in many sectors is at risk of being wiped out by our global competitors who have increased spending in science to boost their economies. With business...

Science set to suffer in post-election budgets

July 14, 2010
With the excitement of the election and the wait to see who’s would take power over, the real nitty-gritty work is set to begin – and as far as the...

Mammoth hunting with Alan Cooper

July 1, 2010
Mammoths went extinct about 45,000 years ago, but a team of international scientists has succeeded in recreating the animal’s blood from DNA samples taken from bones, we find out how...Professor...

Science and politics

June 26, 2010
The dramatic election outcome has given the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats the chance to bring together the best bits of their manifestos on science. Leila Sattary looks back and asks...

The key to success

June 18, 2010
The key to future success in the pharmaceutical field might not be competition, but rather collaboration; a meeting of academic and industry minds focussed on one area to improve treatments.

Exploring sharks’ sens of smell with Jonathan Cox

June 1, 2010
Sharks have really sensitive noses – they can smell a drop of blood from almost 1km away – but how they’re able to do this has always been a puzzle....

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