Autopsy allows us to explore death and disease

Alex van der Wateren shares insights from ‘Virtual Autopsy’ at the Cambridge Science Festival

Thanks to new technology, we are active agents in the future of science

Emma Middleton discusses MyShake, the app enabling the public to play an active role in earthquake detection

Hawking’s survival against the odds should invigorate our quest to cure ALS

The Green Hack showcases technology’s role in the fight against climate change

A liar’s guide to statistics

Can we cure ageing? The search for a lifespan extending drug

What not to miss at the Cambridge Science Festival

The environmental cost of scientific research

Gendered scientific research reinforces our sexist stereotypes

Astronomers fighting the dark matter of misogyny

What’s the point? The pursuit of ‘purpose’ in science

Siri Livingston defends the pursuit of scientific knowledge for its own sake against growing pressure for research to be directly useful to society

The discovery the world could not stomach

Andre Lo describes the troubled journey to a treatment for peptic ulcer disease

Agriculture is fuelling a global crisis of antibiotic resistance

More than disease, misogyny threatens the lives of women in India

Why the lab rats have failed to produce a ‘cure for cancer’

Love, Actually: The neural basis of love

Cracking the code of gender disparity at the Cambridge hackathon

Why don’t facts change people’s minds?

Year in Review

The future of biological publishing is open

Year in Review

Rewriting the code of life

Advances in CRISPR-Cas9 technology are this year’s greatest biological triumph, argues Andre Lo

Music of the body: Our neurons as clocks

Robert Hickman investigates why musicians can perform at different tempos, and speakers can control their cadence

Hunting down a cure for Huntington’s

Remembering Ebola: two years on

For autism therapy, is changing the brain the way forward?

A light bulb moment: the optogenetics revolution

Genetic engineering: hacking a different type of code