Archived Articles
Below is a list of some of the articles I've written.
2008
August
- Stem cell technology may make blood donations thing of the past
- West prefers eyes and mouth, East likes the nose
- A rounder face 'means men are more aggressive'
- Stem cell marker gives new clue to bowel cancer
- Birds not following changing climate fast enough
- Cancer patients have pioneering 'cutting by colour' surgery
- Magpies join elite club of animals that recognise themselves in the mirror
- Why short women with long legs are the most attractive
- Shipping pollution 'may cause 60,000 deaths a year'
- We are natural born mathematicians
- Star Trek warp drive is a possibility, say scientists
- A brief history of warp drives
- Ocean dead zones free of oxygen double every decade
- Web security function being used to digitise old books
- Bowel cancer genetic link found
- Einstein's spooky action acts at 10,000 times the speed of light
- Immune paradox could help treat Aids
- Invisibility materials can speed up web by ten per cent
- The Pill may change women's choice in men
- Immunotherapy: could it be the cure for cancer?
- Victory salute is hardwired into our genes
- Scientists find out why chilli peppers are hot
- Douglas fir stops growing because it can't pull water any higher
- Virtual creatures and robots take on 'a life of their own'
- Two invisibility cloak materials developed
- 'Cellular rubbish' may hold key to ageing process
- Earth like planets should be quite common in the universe
- Extreme rainstorms will rise by 10 per cent by 2050
- New fingerprint method can spot drugs or explosives
- Strange sex life of melons exposed
- Brain scans could help prevent suicides
- Why eyewitness evidence can be useless
- 'Disease in a dish' method could lead to treatments for many serious disorders
- Scientists close to cracking neanderthal DNA code
- Olympic Games drug testing means 'cheaters escape and innocents tarnished'
- Bionic eye heralds cyborg revolution
- Viruses can catch colds, says study that redefines life itself
- The dairy industry is 9 millennia old
- Dogs 'may be able to read their owner's minds'
- Small, cheap, swarming robots unveiled
- Can we make software that comes to life?
- Lost world frozen 14m years ago found in Antarctica
- Vitamin C injections could slow cancers
- Luminous mollusc can tell when you're going to get ill
- Budgies can teach their owners how to learn
July
- Patient's own cells mass produced for first time in lab
- 'Let there be light' genesis moment in a computer
- Secrets of Antikythera Mechanism, world's oldest calculating machine, revealed
- Liquid lake identified on Saturn moon Titan
- 'When you're full, you're shortening your lifespan'
- 'Gossip helps to glue society together'
- Religions thrived to protect against disease
- New Alzheimer's drug is twice as effective as current treatments
- Shrew that drinks 3.8% palm beer every night, but never gets drunk
- Blood test could be cancer 'crystal ball'
- Boffin Log
- Reason found for massive ocean oxygen loss that formed Caribbean
- Amazon tribe has no words for different numbers
- Mars was once 'a great place to live'
- Lizard ancestor spread its ribs to glide
- Tasmanian devil resorts to teenage sex to beat cancer
- Schizophrenia discovery opens path to new treatments
- Old drugs get a new lease of life
- One third of coral species face extinction
- New hope for autism treatments from gene finds
- Moon water overturns lunatic theory
- Game theory could save the world
- Flatfish missing link tells twisted tale
- Fear circuits can be tweaked to make us braver
- New instruments could provide advanced earthquake warnings
- Bright bugs discover new drugs
- Plumage breakthrough for dinosaurs
- Sweaty music find could help develop new treatments
- Songbirds have superfast muscles
- How we keep our ancient reptilian wits about us
- Nuclear industry undermined by savage science cuts
- Mystery of the meat-eaters' molecule
- Upland Britain more resistant to climate change
- Nanoparticle smart bombs used to target cancer cells
- Nanoparticle smart bombs used to target cancer cells
- Famished gene is found and could help tackle obesity
- Sir John Suslton says NHS under threat from commercialisation of science
- Cot death risk test to come from brain chemical find
- General relativity passes the test
- Red wine drug could make elderly more vigorous but not live longer
- Hand gestures are 'universal language'
June
- Scientist identify brain 'core' that could reveal secrets of thought
- Chameleon that lives most of life in an egg
- Coffee could halt multiple sclerosis
- Scientists find 'law of war' that predicts attacks
- Martian gardeners could grow vegetables on Mars
- Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory
- Mars rover landing site revealed
- Birds of a feather revealed in evolutionary tree
- Asteroid impact made Mars two-faced
- Swamp fossil reveals how we got our legs
- Alzheimer's gene provides drug hope
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge to be rebuilt to look like a cell
- 'Sense of adventure' makes us marketing targets
- MP committee fears over lab biosecurity
- Fossilised flesh reveals ichthyosaur secrets
- Scientists repair brain using GM embryo cells
- Science: boffin log
- Polling station location 'could affect your vote'
- Neanderthal tools reveal advanced technology
- Scientists use 'biological alchemy' to convert one cell type into another
- Top of sea warming 50% faster than thought
- Songbirds eavesdrop to find best nests
- Body-shapes are 'down to limbless, headless fish-like creature'
- Chimpanzees 'Sex And The City' style lives
- Lower testosterone in men can lead to earlier death
- Photo of great grandfather of modern computers found
- Government 'turns blind eye to science funding criticism'
- Science: why we scream
- Vegan diet and yoga fight cancer
- Pulling faces 'happens for a purpose'
- 'Molecular archaeology' offers new way to stop allergies
- Cystic fibrosis drug targets cause not symptoms
- Date seed, 2000 years old, is successfully grown
- 'Death of a star' captured on film by telescopes
- Nasa rocket with Glast telescope blasts-off
- All tree leaves have 'thermostat' that maintains temperature
- Experimental Alzheimer's drug is 'astonishing'
- Scientists discover why a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- ADHD 'may be beneficial for some jobs'
- Cheltenham Festival - diary
- Join the Beatles on our Magical Memory Tour
- World's first commercial bionic hand
- Brain protein cuts excessive alcohol drinking
- Woolly mammoths - there were two kinds
- Mind reading by MRI scan raises 'mental privacy' issue
- Time Team's Tony Robinson: Archaeological sites need Protection
- Most influential women scientist search is on
- Swab test to tell if you're a late sleeper or early riser
- Full stomach best for making big decisions
- Chief scientist calls for 'green' food revolution
- Eighties fashion 'violates laws of nature'
- Mobile phones can help predict epidemics
- Embryo-free stem cell research gets boost
- Stem cells 'could have helped Lorenzo Odone'
- Red wine stops effects of high-fat diet
- Bees learn new languages easily
- Robot that can build itself to be unveiled
- Motherly love - worm that eats mummy
- Being fat may not be due to how much you eat
- Malaria drug to be made from 'synthetic biology' organism
- Stone Age man killed to get a woman
- Cosmos may be teeming with alien worlds
- Study suggest testosterone levels may be driven by looks
- Chlorine in water increases birth defects
- Live longer, hang out with young people
May
- Fat, eccentric star puzzles astronomers
- New insect repellent last three times longer
- Scientists heat matter to hotter than surface of the Sun
- What was it like to walk on the Moon?
- What was it like to walk on the Moon?
- What was it like to walk on the Moon?
- What was it like to walk on the Moon?
- Friendly gut bugs could fight diabetes
- Scientists uncover secret of eternal youth
- Orkney Islanders have Siberian ancestors
- Love hormone could banish shyness
- Ghost toddler from ancient Egypt on show as art
- Oceans turning acidic decades earlier
- Canyons on Mars formed by 'megafloods'
- How weary travellers can avoid jetlag
- Supernova sighting leaves atronomers agog
- Missing link fossil settles frog evolution debate
- Research gives new insight into food, drug and alcohol addictions
- Science: could martinis be the secret of Bond's success?
- Science: could martinis be the secret of Bond's success?
- How a magnet turned off my speech
- Biotech: crunch time for UK biotech
- Hope in fight against preeclampsia
- Platypus as bizarre as it looks
- Bubbles the key to a healthier diet
- Amazon doomed by too much clean air
- Embryo research: a source of hope or horror?
- Breastfeeding makes children smarter
- The reason fat people find it hard to lose weight is found
- Oxygen-starved ocean 'deserts' emerging
- Impossible smells exhibition opens
- Baby birds babble like human infants
- Oestrogen is the 'fuel of power'
April
- Starlings know if you are watching them
- MPs report blames Government and a quango for science funding crisis
- Step forward in predicting disease hotspots
- Acoustic cloaking material 'is inevitable'
- Harvard's baby brain research lab
- Why alcohol makes us do stupid things
- World's first cloned horse has foal
- 'Brain training' games do work, study finds
- Scientists nearer to synthetic spider silk
- Blood pressure drug could help weight loss
- How to cure blindess
- Chemotherapy alternative will target only cancer cells
- Robotic exoskeleton replicates Iron Man
- Wetter Arctic may lead to colder winters
- Global warming fix could damage ozone layer
- Alzheimer's drug may be tested on humans in 2 years
- Chicken is T rex's closes living relative
- Hubble telescope archive images released
- GM papaya to reveal gene modification effects
- Beetle adds to Canada's CO2 emissions
- Stem cell first for heart attack victims
- Scientists claim to 'see dark matter'
- Brand names 'as old as civilisation itself'
- Social status is hard-wired into our brains
- Germanic invaders 'did not bring apartheid' to Anglo Saxon Britain
- Diet during pregnancy can affect baby's sex, new research suggests
- Walking in any direction without moving
- Stephen Hawking: Aliens probably exist
- Oil painting 'invented in Asia, not Europe'
- Self-belief in sport 'as good as performance-enhancing drugs'
- Could a 'brain cap' warn us of mistakes we are about to make?
- Breast cancer gene fingerprint find
- 'Metabolic fingerprint' linked to high blood pressure
- Nanomagnet system could target tumors
- World's smallest transistor is the size of a molecule
- Cloning alternative may help save white rhino
- Scientists make music into mathematical shapes
- Skin patch could boosts red blood cell
- Using mind control to make flies sing
- Flu study sheds light on how it spreads
- New technique reverses growth of cancer blood vessels
- Before the Big Bang - the Big Bounce
- Synchrotron X rays 'see' inside fossils
- Tennis study shows John McEnroe was right about line calls - 40pc of the time
- Listen and driving 'as bad as drink driving'
- Scientists predict 500,000GB mp3 player
- Baroness Greenfield's £22m plans for the Royal Institution
- Elephant ancestors were semi-aquatic
- Genetic mutation causes Tea rose scent
- Scientists invent microscopic operating table for 1mm worm
- Scientists unveil revolutionary 'racetrack' computer memory
- Anti-asbestos drug could prevent harmful effects
- Drug that protects against radiation effects
- 'Yeti' fly lost for 40 years is rediscovered
- CDs and DVDs to be made with CO2 emissions
- Campaigners against human embryo research launch legal challenge
- Laser creates brightest light on Earth
- Hybrids: separating hope from the hype
- Prof Peter Higgs interview: Smashing atoms at CERN and the hunt for the 'God' particle
- Nanoparticle fear over anti-odour socks
- Alligators could help fight MRSA
- How tall you are linked to vulnerability to disease
- Earth's sinister beginning: the origins of left-handedness
- Nobel winner criticises Catholic Church over hybrid embryos
- Unhappy with your shape? It's your genes
- Fossilised poo from oldest American people found
- Scientists create material one atom thick
- Moth that can travel at 55mph
- 'IPCC seriously underplays climate change'
- Lung cancer gene variation may lead to new anti-smoking treatments
- New development for fighting skin cancer
- Teenagers 'need an extra hour in bed'
- GM takes a decade to clear
- Babies 'are natural born statisticians'
- Gold necklace found is 'oldest in Americas'
March
- Humans were final cause of woolly mammoth extinction
- Science: monkeys were the first doctors
- Menopause stops female competition
- Directions from anywhere: maths problem solved
- Subliminal messages make us work harder
- Bid to reduce world's smog problem
- Brightest light ever seen by astronomers
- Milestone in hunt for extraterrestrial life
- Those who resort to punishment are losers
- Bird brain study sheds light on why they sing in spring
- What is the matter with the universe?
- Optimum age gap theory disputed
- Feminists appreciate wider range of body sizes
- Synaesthesia could affect half a million children
- Michelangelo's David has dodgy legs
- Cancer treatment: The chickens that lay golden eggs
- Boffin log
- Cancer treatment: The chickens that lay golden eggs
- We prefer people we think are similar to ourselves
- Geckos use their tails to run up walls
- Way to target genes devised for gene therapy
- Drug to cure blindness is 'major breakthrough'
- Possibilty of drug that makes limbs regrow
- Reservoirs keep sea levels down
- Why some fruit are long
- Alien life signs on AA Tauri
- Fifteen genes link to long life discovered
- Streams 'are the world's kidneys'
- DNA building blocks five billionths of a metre across created
- Breast cancer 'master gene' breakthrough
- Flaw in the £7bn Iter fusion power plan
- Breakthrough on gout gene
- National Science Week: alien life begins at home
- Molecular computer could be 'nanobot brain'
- Study finds increasing evidence of health problem in Gulf War veterans
- Monkeys communicate in sentences
- UK astronomers to broadcast adverts to aliens
- Grand Canyon is 17 million years old
- Potential vaccine for flesh eating bacteria
- British sense of fair play proven by science
- Sea cucumbers to help fix brains
- Middle classes 'bigger threat than climate change'
- Comb jellies were our first ancestor
- Brain trick opens possibilites for smart hearing aids
- High radiation exposure linked to heart disease
- Divers dig deep for the hole truth about our ancestors
- Boffin log
- Too many cars cause traffic jams
- Maths flaw found after 140 years
- Short people could live longer
- Plants evolving to self destruct
- Lazy eye hope for adults
February
- Darwin was wrong about (chicken) evolution
- Scientists to teach 'toddlerbot' to speak
- Bats use same tricks as insect to fly
- How roots know which way to grow
- Rainy outlook? Blame it on the bacteria
- Motor neuron disease breakthrough
- Master of deception's secrets revealed
- Scientists "see" ghosts
- African DNA has more genetic diversity
- The new theories that are killing time
- 'Frog from hell' that ate baby dinosaurs
- Gecko inspired waterproof adhesive bandage
- Why beer harms science
- Leeches offer MS hope
- Why scientists love games consoles
- Embryo free way to make cells 'safe'
- Doctoral prance shows scientists can dance
- Clothing that could power your iPod
- Chaos wrecks the balance of nature
- Device mimics black hole event horizon
- Immune system 'could be turbocharged to fight disease'
- Primitive bat fossil settles sonar dispute
- Fishing bycatch is 'junk food' for sea birds
- Current measurse 'won't stop bovine TB'
- Could women grow their own sperm?
- King penguin faces extinction due to climate change
- Exotic sex lives of oysters revealed
- Tiny flying reptile with 10 inch wingspan found
- Napoleon didn't die from arsenic poisoning
- Self-cleaning wool and silk developed using nanotechnology
- Monkeys can recognise who is talking
- 'Test for depression' available within a decade
- Supercomputer 'virtual human' to help fight disease
- Sleep can help obese children lose weight
- Kiwi English from Britain, not Australia
- Knee-brace gizmo to generate electricity
- Secret of John Coltrane's high notes revealed
- Scientists create 'see-through' fish
- Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks'
- Bugs poisoned Earth with rotten egg gas
- High-tech backpack helps reveal lemur's flying secret
- Men can detect when a women is 'on heat', says study
- 'Resistance training' better for weight loss
- Humans are evolving to resist disease
- Pupils go wide eyed when we dither
- Anti-cancer jab 'could be available in a few years'
- Fathers are important in baboon society
January
- Lost city could have been cradle of life
- America is running dry
- Language development mirrors species evolution
- Scientists discover enzyme that controls ovulation
- Deep brain stimulation may help Alzheimer patient's memories
- 'Red wine' based drug may fight cancer
- DNA key to designer nanomaterials
- Why apes are awful capitalists
- Larry Brilliant, of Google.org: Internet 'is pandemic early warning system'
- Chameleons change colour to impress opposite sex
- Fraile were more susceptible to Black Death
- Under the tongue is best place for vaccines
- Skin test shows if you're late or early riser
- Scientist genetically engineer socially-awkward mice
- Allergens in breast milk help tolerance
- Scientist finds traces of life from billions of years ago
- Jupiter atmospheric change detailed by astronomers
- Artificial life being created
- MyHeritage.com aids improved face-recognition technology
- Birds shed light on female fickleness
- Is our cosmos teeming with alien 'unmatter'?
- Birth of flight 'due to angle of flapping'
- Scientists cloning more papers than ever
- Wheel has been reinvented
- Relax the brain for that Eureka! moment
- Treasury accused over science research
- Waiting to have children part of evoloution
- Boffin log
- Gene therapy's 'side-effect free pain relief'
- Compact synchrotron to use simple laser
- Ministers ignored physics crisis warnings
- 'Pac Man' compound could gobble-up nuclear waste
- Scientists target deadly cancer stem cells
- Pain discovery may lead to new drug
- Modern texters scooped 3,000 years ago;-)
- Friendly bacteria could help cut flab
- Columbus did bring syphilis from America
- How to live forever
- GM carrot may help treat osteoporosis
- Teenage pregnancy common in dinosaurs
- The end of earthquakes and volcanoes?
- First bioartificial heart may signal end of organ shortage
- Hypnotism does change the brain
- Cosmic snapshot of dark energy enigma
- Cursed Hope Diamond blood glow explained
- Easter island drug fights tumours
- Scraps stop breast cancer in its tracks
- Fun guy says sex one billion years old
- Divorce and marriage "like horse and carriage"
- Antimatter cloud in our galaxy mapped
- Bristol was home to pygmy dinosaurs
- Chimpanzees need role models
- Bald truth about dinosaur feathers
- Monarch butterflies use human clock to migrate
- Message in a 2,400-year-old bottle
- Sunshine - vitamin D and heart disease included
- Antiageing drug shows promise in first human test
- Paralysis could be treated by nerve rewiring
- Boosting nature's anticancer mechanisms
- Cosmic web to be unravelled
- PC users called to revitalise search for ET
- How the English gave American bowel cancer
2007
December
- Science: The science of dreams - the results
- Science: Boffin log
- Aliens 'obsessed with Earth's weather'
- Harry Potter had wizard genes, say scientist
- Bad news dads - mother-in-law's visiting
- 'Nanoyarn' protein linked to Alzheimer's could be super-fibre
- Magic carpets a reality, says professor
- When whales walked the Earth
- Why you are cleverer and simpler than thought
- Autism study offers hope for Fragile X syndrome
- Badger cull could 'double fox population'
- Marine mammals study offers brain damage hope
- To escape flu - move to the country
- High price may not make champion horse
- Warwick University scientists invent colour Sudoku
- Science: Boffin log
- Science: The death of Santa's beard
- Hopes for obesity after fat cells discovery
- Quantum genesis: How life was born on Earth
- Scientists reveal genetic code of moss
- UK to pull out of atom smasher project
- Long life is in the genes
- Orangutans share a joke too
- Scientists identify origins of freak waves
- Microorganisms could help increase oil production
- Women's backbones facilitate pregnancy
- Wealth is key for marriage, study claims
- Honda's Asimo robot can now charge itself
- Science: The software that bugs you to lose weight
- Pygmies life expectancy is between 16 and 24
- Cancer cells are squishier than normal
- Researchers find breast cancer trigger
- Scientists crack how insect bounces on water
- Failing to learn from mistakes is genetic
- Hope for new schizophrenia drugs
- No clone method treats first disease
- Do fluffy dark stars litter our cosmos?
- London to lead in medical research
- Elephants pee to keep in touch with family
- Fitness, not fat, determines life expectancy
- Why men like to marry younger women
- Mankind needs to make artificial life to survive
- Science: 'Who's Who' in science?
- How to cut your acrylamide levels
November
- Woman's skin turned to embryo cells
- New scan charts cancer treatment success
- "Formal play" better prepares children for school
- Our male ancestors had harems of females
- Hubble telescope reveals galaxy like Milky Way
- Red wine may provide cure for diabetes
- Dogs display aspects of human intelligence
- Did life once thrive on Evil Twin Venus?
- Alzheimer's research 'chasing wrong target'
- Science: Boffin log
- Science: Can we stop anti-social behaviour?
- Missing grey matter may drive obsession
- Experts suffer more nanoangst than we do
- Monkeys strike for better rewards
- Relative wealth 'makes you happier'
- Cell transplant hope for blood diseases
- Antidepressant may hold key to long life
- Thousand-mile mudslide found off Africa
- Robocomedian, the comic computer
- Technology goes bling with silicon gems
- Babies 'can tell friend from foe'
- Sea scorpion 'was bigger than a human'
- Sex threat to polar bears
- Stem cell research revolution spells end for therapeutic cloning
- Science: Measuring creativity
- Science: Boffin log
- Computer workout that boosts memory
- Parkinson's gene therapy 'does work'
- Wormholes could end messy wiring and slow computers
- How to stop allergies killing
- Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning
- 'Robo-roach' gets inside pests' heads
- Can't think at night? Blame 'darkness hormone'
- 'Vacuum cleaner' dinosaur discovered in Niger
- Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
- 'Hypernova' star death explained at last
- Climate change joins fishing as cod threat
- Old drug offers new MS hope
- Science Writer Awards 2008: Will you be Sir David's new discovery?
- Existing rainforest 'is irreplacable'
- Earliest chocolate drink found
- Good vibrations may strengthen elderly bones
- Britain 'faces CJD epidemic' from infected beef
- Cosmic ray mystery solved
- Climate change: Rising tides
- Lung cancer ravages revealed
- Arthritis DNA clue uncovered
- A quantum theory of dreams?
October
- Boffin Log
- Science: Horrors of Hallowe'en are all in the mind
- Lap dancers help fertility scientists
- We can thank fish for our hands and feet
- Future of science: 'We will have the power of the gods'
- The limits of gene ancestry tests
- James Watson has Nobel Syndrome
- Men age faster 'because of Stone Age sex'
- Sex scandal solved by scientists
- Scientists chart how words are changing
- Are we missing a dimension of time?
- Science spend does not match Gordon Brown's aspirations
- Sir Martin Evans on his 'astonishing' Nobel prize
- Windscale fire: 'We were too busy to panic'
- Gordon Brown's 'serious economic mistake'
- Chilli anaesthetic turns off pain
- Anorexia is like ecstasy for sufferers
- Resistant bird flu alert
- Creationists rewrite natural history
- Science: How to win a Nobel Prize
- Science: Boffin log
- Neanderthal empire grows
September
- New clue could curb spread of breast cancer
- Dementia "type three diabetes"
- Science: Is it possible to make science sexy?
- Elephantiasis parasite worm DNA cracked
- Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes
- New target for longevity pills
- How men could use their testicles to fix their hearts
- Science: Roger Highfield's boffin log
- Science Museum: Toys to inspire children
- Science: Roger Highfield's Boffin Log
- Eyes point to new ideas about autism
- St Francis of Assisi robe is a fake
- How cosmic billiards doomed the dinosaurs
- Schizophrenia genes blessed by evolution
- Rain helped us to evolve
- Craig Venter reads his entire DNA 'recipe book'
- Industrial Revolution: Survival of the richest, not the fittest
August
- Why females fancy foreigners
- Where fear lives in our minds
- Gene link to obsessive behaviour
- Shining a light on a world of complexity
- How Henrietta's cells gave us new hope
- Crows are the Einsteins of the avian world
- How to wipe a bad memory
- Star Mira's comet-like tail stuns scientists
- Alien life could be gas
- Yawning gap filled by scientists
- Flexible battery is paper-thin
- Isaac Newton scooped by Indian astronomers
- Boffin log
- The meaning of dreams
- Satellite tracks elephant seal's polar journey
- Where are the dinosaurs, Daddy?
- Gender bender study breakthrough
- Toddler jabbering "easy to explain"
- Our brains crackle to the sound of silence
- Demise of tuna began a century ago
- New warning about chemical in plastic
- Fish eye clue to blindness treatments
- New hope for Stephen Hawking
July
- Mice engineered to be schizophrenic
- Were Neanderthals our enemies or lovers?
- Boffin Log
- The big question
- How to lick disability
- Ancient galaxy find
- Novel cancer target found
- Boffin Log
- Through the keyhole of the Royal Institution
- Research amplifies concerns about chemicals
- How aphids become suicide bombers
- 'Sun not responsible for climate change'
- Harry Potter magic - fact behind the fiction
- DNA shows when Greenland was green
- How politicians will con Second Life residents
- Jellyfish to be made into cosmetics
- Blood test for human mad cow disease
- Gene may diagnose childhood asthma early
- Saturn's strange spongy world
- Boffin Log
- Illusions that will twist your mind
- Glowing clouds at the edge of space
June
- Stem cell trial warning
- Macho dads have wimpish daughters
- Missing link to revolutionise stem cell treatments
- 'How I found Queen Hatshepsut'
- Jumbo problem solved at last
- The implantable artificial lung
- Boffin Log
- How to build a greener H-bomb
- Ancient virus left us vulnerable to Aids
- Lunatic spinning mirror to probe cosmos
- Could this be your distant relative?
- Egg-straordinary resistance to decay
- Parasites get gene codes cracked
- Life just got a lot more complicated
- Secrets of singing revealed
- Stem cell science over key hurdle
- Paying taxes 'can give you a warm glow inside'
- Could plastic grow on trees?
- The double death star
- Branson: How to launch Stephen Hawking into space
- Aliens really do exist!
- Boffin Log
- The recipe for success
- Starfish, atom smashers and cider
- When DID we start getting fat?
- The 80,000 year old bling
- Who will be the next David Attenborough?
- Who will be the next David Attenborough?
- Scientist discover previous ozone thinning
May
- Feathered dinosaur theory won't fly
- Alien waterworld found by astronomers
- Genes might help you learn Chinese
- Boffin Log
- Fat? Blame the bugs in your guts
- Babies 'can see language'
- In need of directions? Men, stay straight
- Does a poor upbringing make you more left wing?
- Boffin Log
- Clock gene implicated in weight gain
- A DNA portrait of European history
- Boffin Log
- Can flies think?
- So why does a popped balloon go bang?
- Why athletes should look to the whippet
- How Imhotep gave us medicine
- Marsupial melanoma clue
- Stem cells 'can mend an ailing heart'
- The secret of flocking revealed
- Supernova explosion 'best star-show ever'
- The concept of race is meaningless
- Yeast engineered to sniff out explosives
- New target in the fight against dementia
- Why the elderly are easier to con
April
- Boffin log
- Birth of the Atlantic triggered global warming
- Revolutionary bionic arm unveiled
- The secret of the swift's aerial mastery
- Cheers! The mystery of beer froth solved at last
- Another reason dogs are like us
- Ultimate scales can weigh cells
- Dr Roger's Home Experiments
- Sun in 3D will boost solar storm forecast
- Drug could treat 2,000 hereditary disorders
- Vast rainforest found deep in a coal mine
- Secret of flowering discovered (again)
- Boffin log
- More proof of global warming?
- How to find Earth's alien twin
- The diabetic who is part pig
- Air travel threatens biodiversity
- The Robin Hood impulse
- Old drugs offer a new way to fight brain cancer
- Boffin log
- A fresh future for flat old beer
- Cocktail could make superbugs evolve to be nicer
- How to keep a job for life
- Boffin log
- How to be really bad at maths, in a flash
March
- Monkeys are more cultured than we think
- Boffin log
- Why we need the male mozzie
- Nuthatches can speak chickadee
- Llama 'trail' reveals fall of mighty Incas
- Scientists stumped by 100m years of chastity
- GM mosquito may combat malaria
- Looking for life on the ocean wave
- Boffin bits
- Is this the fabric of the universe?
- Where is that woodpecker?
- Do microbes have the answer?
- Green tea may help battle cancer
- How to make science really shine
- Cocoa ingredient 'rivals penicillin'
- Has science found the moody hormone?
- Robot salamander replays key moment in evolution
- Rats are smarter than we think
- Secret of exam success? Rosy memories
- Bad-tempered women 'can blame it on genes'
- Cancer diagnosis and treatment boosted by gene hunt
- New DNA weapon to catch rapists
- This could be your dream diet
- Eating less could help you live to 100
- What really happens in out of body experiences
- Genes could give diagnosis of lung cancer
- Blood test could avoid miscarriages
- Drug addiction could be down to your genes
- Flying into the eye of the storm
- Ancient observatory lights up history of solar worship
February
- Brain yields new clues to obesity
- Fashionable snow sports threaten alpine wildlife
- Skin cell study offers cancer clue
- Scientists create world's thinnest material
- Boff Idol launches in London
- Why we are closer to cousins from our mother's side
- Cosmic grafitti artist caught
- Alpine skiing on a slippery slope
- Milk allergy 'caused by Stone Age genes'
- Snails and slugs not as slow as they look
- New target for schizophrenia drugs
- Robots hold key to evolution of language
- Giant step to finding alien planets that glow with life
- Pregnancy clue to multiple sclerosis treatment
- Clue to cause of dyslexia
- Snack attack gene link
- The prehistory of man and bug
- Can fat heal the heart?
- New window opens on human development
- Men are easier to clone than women
- New genes point to diabetes risk
- Mystery of moth flight revealed
- LSD reveals its secrets
- Human skin teems with bacteria
- Why male butterflies are all aflutter
- How global warming affects fish stocks
- Laws of Nature survive attack by Nano Demon
January
- 'Switch' that may turn off cancer
- An eye-opener for the atomic world
- Teacher's masterclass on how to win
- Sex life to ex-life
- How museums destroyed their DNA heritage
- Is Britain prepared for the Big One? (No)
- The politics of stem cell ethics
- Could breast implants trigger disease?
- From icehouse to greenhouse
- Why you never forget how to ride a bike
- Under the haze, scientists find the lost lakes of Titan
- Scientists engineer cattle immune to BSE
2006
December
- Laughter: it's catching
- Humble shoelace tag worth more than gold
- Cosmic bang baffles boffins
- Bad news for the tooth fairy, good for dental patients
November
- Revealed: how to fix a broken heart
- Blind man challenges the theory of déjà vu
- Typhoid is with us to stay
- What flavour is the word 'platypus'?
- How the alchemists used smart materials science
- Listening in on the birth pangs of the Earth's crust
- How hormones decorate showy males
- DNA variety is the spice of human life
- Fish have personalities too
- Wasps are poor losers
- Scientists spin cells into a living yarn
- Mutations that could cause a pandemic
- Dead Sea Scrolls lead to Deadly Toilet
- The sweet perfume of money
- Official: politicians don't reveal the truth
- Snails venom signals a pain free future
- Gene glitch may lead to hair loss
- Why we are all urchins
- Toothsome finding shakes human family tree
- How jet lag could shorten your life span
- Why birds of a feather flock together
- Killer virus meets its match
October
- The virtual medical man
- Mammoth task of reversing history
- Sealed with... 146 muscles
- Why exactly is this ride so thrilling?
July
- Are these DNA clocks the key to longer life?
- Is this the oldest human virus
- Did Sellafield workers seed leukaemia?
- Imagine what she had to eat for her lunch
June
- Can they make you invisible?
- Why these super-organisms can't live without these bugs...
- Fast forward to cartoon reality
May
- Can this really kill you?
- Craig Venter Interview
- Big questions for the new faces of science
- Null Hypothesis May 2006
