What does dopamine actually have to do with happiness?
Image credit: Mev, via Pixabay In popular media, neurotransmitters are often viewed as on-off switches for basic human emotions, but...
Let’s talk about autism.
We’re coming to the end of Autism Awareness Month, which has slipped by rather silently – the usual barrage of...
Uncovering an ancient Antarctic rainforest
New research indicates that the icy continent was once home to a temperate rainforest, Shruti Sundaresan reports. An artist’s impression...
What makes a vaccine?
Image Credit: Karolina Grabowska vis Pexels In the age of COVID-19, science communication has become more important than ever. In...
Sound: an invisible pollutant
When we think of ocean pollution, most of us visualise floating plastic, oil spills, or maybe even ocean acidification from...
The Perils and Possibilities of CRISPR Whispering
Image credit: Elsie Greenwood In November 2018 a controversial public announcement was published on YouTube by He Jiankui, a biophysics...
Time for an upgrade? Exploring human neural enhancement
Image credit: Aytuguluturk, Pixabay When considering neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces, cyborgs and sentient robots may come to mind – part...
Why do humans – and so few other animals – have periods?
Image credit: Patricia Moraleda via Pixabay Opposable thumbs, the power of speech, the capacity to think and reason: there are...
Do viruses make your clock tick wrong?
With the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic happening, let’s delve into one of the many clever strategies that viruses use to successfully...