Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens

Robots well suited to dangerous drudge work in the chemistry lab

Science OK in the UK

Signs of life beyond Earth?

Greenhouse paint boosts usable light for plants

How rocks tell the history of Earth

Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools

US Honeybees in steep decline

Transfigured Sea – interweaving of human lives and sea creatures

Charles Todd celebrated at Adelaide’s Marriott Hotel

Uncertainty – a key aspect of our lives

World watching Australia’s social media ban for under-16s

Jonathon Porritt charts lives of young British climate campaigners

Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing

How technology can reduce loneliness

Phage – part of the fight against antibacterial resistance

Biofilms – they’re everywhere

Internet and social media for animals?

Curious animal sounds

Graphene 15 years on