- Glenn Close has genes mapped
Reuters UK | 11:45 PM March 11
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu has done it. So has genome pioneer Craig Venter. ...
- Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge
Reuters UK | 08:15 PM March 11
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic c ...
- Thalidomide effect mystery solved
BBC News | 08:15 PM March 11
The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists. ...
- Scientists find "mother" of all skin cells
Reuters UK | 07:45 PM March 11
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found the "mother," or origin, of all skin cells and say their discovery could dramatically improve skin treatments for victims of serious wounds ...
- Telepathic computer can read your mind
Telegraph | 05:45 PM March 11
Telepathy has taken a step closer to reality after British scientists developed a computer that can read your thoughts. ...
- "Personal" study shows gene maps can spot disease
Reuters UK | 03:45 PM March 11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of ...
- Half-cock chicken mystery solved
BBC News | 01:45 PM March 11
Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female. ...
- Farming future
BBC News | 01:45 PM March 11
The dawning age of the agricultural automatons ...
- Japan protest over tuna ban plan
BBC News | 01:15 PM March 11
Japan voices opposition to a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, after the EU backs the plan. ...
- Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN
Reuters UK | 12:45 PM March 11
GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle coll ...
- Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment
BBC News | 12:15 PM March 11
- Scientists find why "sunshine" vitamin D is crucial
Reuters UK | 09:45 AM March 11
LONDON (Reuters) - Vitamin D is vital in activating human defences and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are p ...
- Jodrell Bank observatory to receive multi-million pound overhaul
Telegraph | 08:15 AM March 11
Jodrell Bank observatory is to build a 'live science' centre next to the Lovell telescope to attract a new generation of physicists and astronomers. ...
- Men with wider faces 'less trustworthy'
Telegraph | 08:15 AM March 11
Men with wider faces are less trustworthy than others, according to new research. ...
- Massage no better at beating stress than deep breathing and soft music
Telegraph | 08:15 AM March 11
Having a massage is no better at beating stress than home relaxation techniques like breathing deeply and listening to soothing music, a study has found. ...
- Doing crosswords or sudoku 'helps couples get over arguments'
Telegraph | 07:45 AM March 11
Doing crosswords or puzzles such as sudoku can help people make-up quickly after arguments with their partners, research has found. ...
- Meteorites may have kick-started life on Earth
Telegraph | 07:15 AM March 11
Meteorites that bombarded Earth four billion years ago could have kick-started life rather than wiping it out, a study shows. ...
- Scientists to review climate body
BBC News | 06:45 PM March 10
The UN Secretary-General asks the world's leading science academies to review the UN's climate science body. ...
- EU set to ban bluefin tuna trade
BBC News | 06:15 PM March 10
Reports indicate that the EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna. ...
- Large Hadron Collider - timeline
Telegraph | 05:15 PM March 10
- Large Hadron Collider to close for a year for refit and repairs
Telegraph | 05:15 PM March 10
The Large Hadron Collider is to shut down for a year to repair mistakes made in construction in the latest in a series of set backs to hit the atom smasher. ...
- Common osteoporosis drugs 'could make limbs weaker if used for too long'
Telegraph | 05:15 PM March 10
Common drugs used to treat the brittle bone disease osteoporosis could make limbs easier to break if used for too long, research suggests. ...
- Harrabin's Notes
BBC News | 03:45 PM March 10
Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels ...
- Obama to push White House vision for NASA in April
Reuters UK | 02:15 PM March 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will outline his administration's vision for space agency NASA and an eventual trip to Mars during a conference in Florida in April, t ...
- Science 'is a key election issue'
BBC News | 01:15 PM March 10
The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding. ...
- Opposites do attract as 'stressed men make odd sexual decisions', study suggests
Telegraph | 10:45 AM March 10
German researchers studying the psychology of sexual attraction found that stressed men made strange choices in sexual preferences. ...
- Spaceman
BBC News | 10:45 AM March 10
Rummaging in BBC archive for Apollo reports 40 years on ...
- Large Hadron Collider 'to shut down for a year'
Telegraph | 09:45 AM March 10
Major step towards mimicking conditions that followed the Big Bang three days after a restart. ...
- It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Reuters UK | 09:45 AM March 10
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to ...
- Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears
Reuters UK | 09:45 AM March 10
OSLO (Reuters) - Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global wa ...
- World's largest meat-eating plant prefers to eat... small animal poo
BBC News | 09:45 AM March 10
The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover. ...
- 'Minority Report' digital billboard 'watches consumers shop'
Telegraph | 08:15 AM March 10
The digital billboard similar to ones from the Tom Cruise film are being developed by NEC, the Japanese technology company. ...
- Pictured: 'astonishing' rare black penguin living on South Georgia
Telegraph | 07:45 AM March 10
The penguin, believed to have melanism, was spotted on Fortuna Bay, an island off South Georgia, about 860 miles off the Falklands. ...
- Extinct elephant bird of Madagascar could live again
Telegraph | 07:45 AM March 10
Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out more than three hundred years ago. ...
- Cow gives birth to triplets
Telegraph | 07:45 AM March 10
A cow has given birth to triplets despite the odds of doing so being 100,000 to one. ...
- Panda chirps reveal best time to breed
Telegraph | 04:15 AM March 10
Listening to subtle changes in the calls of female giant pandas may help improve attempts to get the highly endangered animals to breed in captivity, new research has revealed. ...
- Row over leaked climate emails may undermine reputation of science
Telegraph | 04:15 AM March 10
The row sparked by the leak of climate change emails from a British university has the potential to "undermine" the reputation of science as a whole, two respected scientific organ ...
- SpaceX aborts rocket engine test
Reuters UK | 03:15 AM March 10
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly ca ...
- Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
BBC News | 01:45 AM March 10
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists. ...
- LHC fault forces 2011 shutdown
BBC News | 12:45 AM March 10
The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned. ...
- Ancient eggshell yields its DNA
BBC News | 12:45 AM March 10
The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say. ...
- Galapagos tension
BBC News | 12:45 AM March 10
Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem? ...
- SpaceX fires rocket engines in quest to fly cargo
Reuters UK | 09:15 PM March 09
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies fired up the engines of its debut Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and ev ...
- Nanotech 'fuse' for novel battery
BBC News | 05:45 PM March 09
A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers. ...
- Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider over apocalypse fears
Telegraph | 04:45 PM March 09
A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction. ...
- David Cameron's body language more attractive than Gordon Brown's
Telegraph | 04:15 PM March 09
David Cameron's body language has been deemed more attractive to voters than that of Gordon Brown. ...
- Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change
Reuters UK | 02:45 PM March 09
SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. ...
- Third of EU emissions 'imported'
BBC News | 01:15 PM March 09
Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries. ...
- Tongue-lashing: Chameleon's weapon unmatched in the cold
BBC News | 12:15 PM March 09
Chameleon have a hidden advantage as hunters, a ballistic tongue that works well in the cold. ...
- Lough eel numbers 'on the brink'
BBC News | 11:15 AM March 09
There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports. ...
- Skynet satellite system extended
BBC News | 10:45 AM March 09
Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces. ...
- Blooming rare
BBC News | 10:45 AM March 09
One of the loneliest flowers on earth in all its glory ...
- Green Room
BBC News | 09:45 AM March 09
On the merits of biological control of alien invaders ...
- Jovian vision
BBC News | 09:45 AM March 09
Secrets the coming missions to Jupiter could reveal ...
- Russia halts space tours as U.S. retires Shuttle
Reuters UK | 07:45 AM March 09
STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after t ...
- What is the psyllid?
Telegraph | 07:15 AM March 09
Millions of sap-sucking insects are to be introduced to control Japanese knotweed. But what kind of insect is the new gardener's friend? ...
- Insects to be brought in to control Japanese Knotweed
Telegraph | 07:15 AM March 09
A superweed that has been the bane of gardeners across the UK for more than a century has finally met its match - a tiny bug from Japan. ...
- Spell-covered burial chamber found in Egypt's Saqqara
Reuters UK | 07:15 AM March 09
CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of Egypt's Queen Behenu inside her 4,000-year-old burial chamber near her pyramid in Saqqara, chief archaeolo ...
- Idle chit chat can make you unhappy
Telegraph | 03:15 AM March 09
Idle chit chat can make you unhappy, a study has found. ...
- Sugary soft drinks lead to diabetes, research finds
Telegraph | 03:15 AM March 09
Drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to an increase in new cases of diabetes and heart disease. ...