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A £20m fund to explore innovations around the way we manufacture and use plastic was announced this week by the science minister Sam Gyimah

Countries across the European Union – including the UK – vote to ban the outdoor use of three bee-harming pesticides

New 'game changing' blood test could help detect eight types of cancer earlier

Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem the best option. Joanna Moorhead thought so – until she listened to her instincts at the last minute. Now she’s glad she chose less extensive surgery

From motion-powered mobile phone chargers to urine-powered electricity; three ways in which human energy is pushing society forward

From the northern lights emerging over a glacier lagoon, to the scars of a heart and lung transplant, a competition to showcase photographs that illustrate inspirational aspects of science has [...]

A photo of swirling graphene ink in alcohol, which can be used to print electrical circuits on to paper, has won the overall prize in a national science photography competition

A new Marvel comics series features interviews with real world scientists in an attempt to inspire a new generation of female science, technology, engineering and maths experts

Science is shrugging off its lab coat. Here are our top five science projects you can get involved in

Looking back at ten years of writing about the science of human goodness for Greater Good, Jeremy Adam Smith discovers that the bad and good – and the inner and outer – go hand in hand

You’re busy, “crazy-busy” even, so why would taking more breaks and wandering off for walks during the working day help you become less busy and more successful? Because, when done properly, less [...]

A new study finds that cultivating a diversity of emotions – positive or negative – can make us happier and healthier

Professor Dame Carol Robinson, the first female professor of chemistry at Oxford University, talks to Robin Yapp about the important role of women in academia, and issues of gender equality in [...]

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is planning to work harder on disseminating its research to international scientists to fulfil its goal of targeting global challenges such as climate change

Tom Lawson talks to Robin Ince, comedian and co-host of BBC Radio 4's award-winning The Infinite Monkey Cage, on how comedy is bringing science to a wider audience

Since 1987 more than 500,000 US citizens have received hearts, livers, kidneys and other donated organs that have extended their lives, according to new research

A paralysed man in Poland is slowly learning to walk again thanks to a breakthrough medical procedure

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that could one day allow objects from cracked mobile phone screens to meteor-battered space probes to [...]

We're already aware of the problems the natural world faces, it's time the conservation community shares what's being done about it, says Tom Lawson