Doctors and patients need to question unnecessary procedures, writes Dr Margaret McCartney.

The work of Francis Crick and James Watson gives us a vision of what's to come.

Can shale gas and fracking solve our energy crisis?

The baby might not even have been infected in the first place.

David Livingstone’s life and death in Africa helped mould the Victorian missionary myth of exploration and sparked the Scramble for Africa. Yet he was never a typical imperialist and he left a powerfully charitable legacy.

Every time a girl sees a shelf of science-related toys under a sign that says "boys", she is being told that the world thinks science is not for her.

Dangerous dithering.

The remarkable abilities already inside us.

Martha Gill's Irrational Animals column.

Asteroid Apophis will pass over earth at midnight.

Medicalising natural and normal responses to life experiences is a dangerous game.

The Large Hadron Collider at Cern is a thing of wonder – not just for smashing 600 million protons together a second, but for uniting 10,000 scientists from 113 countries in the pursuit of knowledge.

Peter Wothers explains one of the experiments that forms part of his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.