Sprinting to success: how basilisk lizards race across water
Could athletes mimic basilisk lizards and turn water-running into an Olympic sport? That's the question Nicole Sharp asks as she investigates nature's most extraordinary sprinters, which perform some amazing feats of biology. Also this month, Keith Cooper explores the conflict between two leading theories of dark matter and whether WIMPs or axions will reign supreme. Meanwhile, Alistair Bounds, who works for UK medical tech firm Occuity, explains how certain eye-screening technologies could help us non-invasively detect and monitor chronic diseases that are otherwise hard to spot.
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