Research scientists have largely gone unnoticed as major users of unrecyclable material. Now some universities are helping them kick the habit

Bishop Auckland, County Durham: Most candidates are descended from discarded cores of domesticated orchard apples, complex hybrids whose ancestors came from the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan

Even before the Zika virus, mosquitoes were the deadliest creatures on the planet. But gene modification means these blood suckers’ days might be numbered. Is it dangerous to talk about ‘editing nature’, or should we consider eradicating them for good?