A custom-built programmable 3D printer that can print materials with the properties of living tissues has been developed by Oxford University researchers.

Astronomers have discovered an extremely distant galaxy that has one of the largest star-formation rates they have ever seen.

Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth.

Saturn’s atmosphere is home to more charged water particle “rain” than previously thought suggests a study led by the University of Leicester.

The ability to recognise your own body is more complicated than you think, suggest Swedish scientists who have demonstrated that is possible to evoke the illusion of having a phantom hand in non-amputees.

Two researchers from University of California Berkeley have now described mathematically the successive stages in the complex life of foamy bubbles – with implications as diverse as plastics and cell biology.

A tiny robot inspired by the feet of tree-frogs is being built at the University of Leeds. The device may one day allow surgeons to better visualise key-hole surgery.

A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops suggests a team at Virginia Tech who have succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch.

Researchers in Poland have created air-breathing biobatteries that may be used to power pacemakers, hearing aids and other body implants in the future.

A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. Researchers in China used a mathematical model to analyse the way bumblebees fly at different speeds.