We take a sample from a dog’s water bowl and examine it under a microscope to see what microscopic life and particles may be present. A surprising science experiment that highlights why clean water ...

Nietzsche decided that when the single-celled brainless blob reached out with the arm-like extensions on its cell membrane, known as "false feet," to grab food or move across a surface, that it was ...

Physicists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were not hunting for a demon. They were studying an exotic ...

The Big Bang Radio 3, 2pm Another packed week of Proms gets underway with a concert aimed at younger ears, from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Karen Ní Bhroin, harnessing the ...

New innovative smart ring turns finger sweat into real-time data on glucose, ketones and other key health biomarkers.

Beatrix Potter Was Obsessed With Fungi And She Was Quite The Naturalist. Before I became a mycologist, I knew Beatrix Potter as the author of some of my favourite childhood books. It was only years ...

In the misty cloud forests of the Andes, there's one particular genus that wildlife traders can't get enough of. It's not a primate or reptile – no, the target is something subtler and a little ...

A bizarre series of events in a college microbiology lab class left 33 people—including students, professors, and lab workers ...

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.