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The super-societies beneath our feet

Calum Stephenson reveals the secrets of insect life in an excerpt from Bang! Science Magazine, out this week

Putting policy under the microscope

Josephine Pepper talks to Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Advisor for Government and former Director of the Wellcome Trust

The ‘Oxford’ scent: a chemist in perfumery

Ruth Mastenbrœk, entrepreneur, scientist, and former president of the British Society of Perfumers, talks to Annie Yu about her international career in cosmetic science, her inspirations, and having a “good nose”

A scientific justification for ‘man-flu’?

Maddie Hooper on the suggestion that viruses have evolved to hit men harder than women

Quantum physics is invading biology

The time has come to apply the ideas of quantum mechanics to biological mysteries

Matt Ridley on ice ages, bird watching and cultural evolution

Calum Stephenson talks to the Conservative hereditary peer, journalist, economist, and businessman whose science books have been translated into 30 languages and sold over a million copies

The metabolic key to novel therapies

Hijacking immune cells’ metabolism has potential in MS and cancer therapy

Dr Nick Lane on the origin of life

Cherwell talks to the UCL researcher and popular science writer to investigate the media hype surrounding his ideas on life’s beginning

Not so supertrees after all

Cities may never provide havens for the natural world

Science may be far from true

Rachel Dunne on a branch of philosophy that argues that progress is biased by social factors

Bigger babies? So what?

Taking a closer look at the claim that caesarean sections are driving evolution

The smell of Christmas

The discovery of molecules responsible for the smell of frankincense may revolutionise the perfume industry and save a species

Sustainable journalism?

The way in which environmental research is presented hugely impacts public perception, says Stephen Lezak

Editing genes: Can we? Should we?

The development of CRISPR paves the way for human gene therapy. Calum Stephenson argues that it is our moral duty to see it through.

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