Miniature placentas grown in lab give positive pregnancy test result
28 November 2018
Researchers hope that tiny placentas grown from human cells can help research into why pregnancies sometimes lead to stillbirths or small babies
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The Honey Factory review – the buzz of exploring honeybees' secrets
28 November 2018
A real insider book explains why the saying busy as a bee has honeybees all wrong – and how studying them in the wild could be good news for them and us
The best fiction and sci-fi of 2018 to wrap or read this Xmas
28 November 2018
The best fantastic novels and comic series of the year mourn a wild past and look with trepidation towards a weird future
Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm
28 November 2018
We've identified particles that could secretly cross from the regular world to the shadowy realm of dark matter. Now we just need to catch them in the act
Giant baby birds sitting on their potty-like nests make a fine sight
28 November 2018
Rare Chatham albatross chicks get a room with a view – the adults build towering ground nests up to a metre tall to try to keep their young high and dry
Putting a price on CO2 is a smokescreen that hides its human cost
28 November 2018
Slashing the social cost of carbon emissions reveals the economic charade delaying real action on climate change, says Kevin Anderson
Making AI research classified will harm US science
28 November 2018
The US is mulling controls on the sharing of AI, but science can't grow in isolation, says Mark Riedl
Green Christmas: How to have an ethical and guilt-free festive season
28 November 2018
If you celebrate Christmas, it doesn't have to be a feast of rampant consumerism and devastating gluttony. Read our guide to cleaning up your Yule
First transmission
28 November 2018
The Europeans who arrived in Sydney Cove in Australia from the 1780s onwards weren't decimated by disease after contact with the local Aboriginal people, whereas the reverse was all too true. Were the local population free of contagious diseases?
Tipple tummy
28 November 2018
The beer belly is a particular form of (usually male) weight gain. Is there credible evidence that beer is capable of producing this localised fat deposition? If not, what causes it?
