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Meningitis: who to vaccinate?

Last year, more than three-quarters of a million people signed a petition to widen the age group immunised against the most common strain of meningitis in young children. So why not vaccinate more kids? Martin Maiden explains the complexities of the fight against Meningococcus

Blue Skies Biology

A unique collaboration involving scientists, artists and amateur rocket enthusiasts is attempting to sample and identify microorganisms on the edge of space. Rachel Brazil reports

An evening with Sir Alec Jeffreys

The inventor of DNA fingerprinting speaks to Alison Woollard about the scientists who inspired him and the 'eureka moment' that revolutionised forensic science

Lessons from larvae

Biologist and author Professor Matthew Cobb explains why studying the much-maligned maggot can help us better understand ourselves – from our genes and development to our sense of smell

Focus on...Crowdfunding science

We explore how scientists can bypass traditional funding routes and raise money for research online

Delving deeper

Submarine canyons contain a greater abundance of life than most of the deep sea. Laetitia Gunton looks at the ecology of these spectacular valleys in the seabed

In the wrong place at the wrong time

How do we define if a species is native or non-native? Anne Goodenough looks at the challenges ecologists face when deciding what 'belongs' where