The Curious Incidence of the Cicadas in the Springtime
How the properties of prime numbers have helped a species of defenceless insects outlast many of their predators and survive an ice age.
Category: Life Sciences
Digital Pills: Big Data or Big Brother?
Newly approved drugs have a built in sensor which reports when it’s been taken. Is this a breakthrough in disease management or overly invasive?
The Hidden World
Fabien Cholet explores what the origin of life on Earth, the inside of your digestive system and climate change all have in common.
Robots, Computers and Hard drives: The age of DNA?
Humanity has a problem with the volume of information we are producing, in the last two years alone we produced more data than we have before in all of human history . From...
How Do Our Brains ‘See’ Motion as We Get Older?
Laura Ward shares her exciting neuroscience research: neuroimaging motion perception as a function of age.
Small Creature, Giant Genome: Sequencing the Axolotl
Frances Osis looks at the largest genome sequenced to date, and why it may be important for regenerative medicine.
Ovarian Stem Cells
A look at the discovery of elusive ovarian stem cells and their potential applications in human reproduction.
Going Down the Rabbit Hole of Evo-devo: Deep Homology
You and a fly share a lot in common, far more than you’d expect. It’s time to become acquainted with your inner fly.
