Smoking is the most preventable cause of death, causing nearly 6 million deaths worldwide every year. At current rates, this figure is projected to reach mor...

It happens continuously. Speedy protons from space slam into molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, sparking reactions that produce, among other things, muons. Typ...

The impact of scientific work is boosted when it features co-authors who have a diverse range of ethnicities. That is according to an analysis of nine millio...

Do people have a problem placing trust in one another? At least in an abstract, globalized sense, the answer is yes, according to a study published earlier t...

In this week's social selection column, I look at three scientific papers that were extensively discussed on social media. First, is a study of biodiversity ...

Young video bloggers (vloggers) such as Zoe Sugg, known as Zoella, photographed above have millions of subscribers on YouTube and are now making inroads to o...

Art of the Brick, an exhibition made of more than 1 million LEGO bricks, is set to open in London on 26th September. The full story was published in The Obse...

I wrote three short stories for the 'Lab Notes' section of the 'Discover' part of the 'The New Review' section of The Observer newspaper that was published t...