Marilyn had everything to live for, so how she die? Evidently she had been poisoned, but was it suicide, assassination, or an accident? The suspicious circumstances surrounding her death fed conspiracy theories at the time and they haven't gone away.
Kathryn Roberts reports on the application of synthetic biology and other naturally-based approaches to the production of dyestuffs
Flying in the face of President Trump's announcement he would withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in June, Hawaii became the first US state to put into law its pledge to honour the agreement, with two state bills committed to cutting emissions and publishing greenhouse gas levels
Droughts and extreme heat can slash cereal yields, spiking prices of basic foodstuffs. But scientists are finding creative ways to make crops more resilient to such stresses, reports Anthony King
Cameras that mimic the ability of many animal species including man - to see clearly in the middle of their visual field, in the centre of the retina, could yield superior medical images, reports Maria Burke.
Solar power made up 25% of the UK's energy mix on the afternoon of 26 May 2017, a weekday, generating 8.7GW of power, more than coal and nuclear combined, and second only to gas-fired generation
Sometimes small changes can make a disproportionately large difference. A thought-provoking example appears in a computational paper that has chosen the reactions of the prebiotic peptide cycle as the...