Biology

27 Sep 2012

Brands take the battle against ageing to deep within our skin cells, writes Tama Lung

Short Science, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected to fetch as much as US$2 million when it is auctioned by Christie's...

Cancer reflects the processes of the evolution of life

27 Jan 2013

In the frantic search for an elusive "cure", few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life? Astonishingly, in spite...

Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini dies aged 103

31 Dec 2012

Nobel medicine laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, a neurologist and developmental biologist, died yesterday at her home in Rome aged 103.

Italy's so-called "Lady of the Cells" was the oldest...

Parasites thrive on mind control as zombie hosts seal their own doom

16 Dec 2012

In the rainforests of Costa Rica lives a species of spider that sometimes displays a strange and ghoulish habit.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

How we live affects our descendants' genes, epigenetics shows

Is smoking a sin?

The First Commandment of the Bible states: "For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth...

Scientists baffled but relieved after butterflies swarm Siu Lang Shui

Butterfly experts are baffled by the surge in seasonal visitors to the city's leading natural habitat and are calling for more volunteers to help them tag the insects.

Shark brains could hold key to attacks, says study

Shark brains have been found to share several features with those of humans, a discovery which Australian researchers believe could be crucial to developing "repellents" for the killer great white...

SCIENCE

Asian elephant Koshik speaks Korean

An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary.

Whales mimic human speech

It could be the muffled sound of someone singing in the shower or that nonsensical, indecipherable speech of the Muppets' Swedish Chef.

In fact, the bizarre audio unveiled by scientists on...

Beauty treatments can come with side effects

A good doctor will always assess a patient's health for any conditions that might put the patient at a higher risk during an aesthetic procedure, says Dr Walter King Wing-keung.