Tom Ireland

Tom Ireland is a freelance science journalist, and editor of The Biologist, the bi-monthly magazine of the Royal Society of Biology.

Recent articles by Tom Ireland

The best way to kill a superbug? Use a virus © Getty Images

The best way to kill a superbug? Weaponise a virus

Forensic science in real life is a more laborious process than is shown on television © Getty Images

Forensic science What we still don't know

Forensic scientist at crime scene

What is forensic science?

COVID-19 immunity: Your questions answered © Magic Torch

Everything you need to know about COVID-19 immunity

The aluminum cryo-capsule containing mylar-wrapped body, designed by wigmaker Edward Hope to store frozen body of James Bedford © Getty Images

Future Technology

The history of cheating death A timeline of cryonics

Cryonics: Could you live forever? © Getty Images

Future Technology

Cryonics Could you live forever?

Biofilm of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Rod-shaped and spherical bacteria. Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA. 3D illustration

Everything you need to know Antibiotic resistance

What is DNA? © iStock

What is DNA?

Wild ideas in science: Mushrooms could save the world © Scott Balmer

Wild ideas in science Mushrooms could save the world

Wild ideas in science: There's an off-switch for ageing © Scott Balmer

Wild ideas in science There's an off-switch for ageing

Forbidden medicine: what do we do when medical breakthrough are unethical? © Getty Images

Forbidden medicine What do we do when medical breakthroughs are unethical?

miracle-microbes

Miracle microbes 7 types of bacteria fuelling our future

In cold blood - how therapeutic hypothermia can save lives

In cold blood: how therapeutic hypothermia can save lives

Currently, animals are farmed for their meat (L) but a bioreactor (R) provides ideal conditions in which to grow muscle cells to create cultured meat © Getty Images

Future Technology

Artificial meat What you need to know about your synthetic supper

Bacteria controls the weather © Scott Balmer

Bacteria controls the weather