Science

Scientists claim to have built 'invisibility cloak'

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Scientists claim they have built an 'invisibility cloak' that can hide everyday objects by splitting light.

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The fish that could be the answer to heart disease

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Steve Connor: Scientists hope to learn from the zebrafish's ability to regenerate cardiac muscle.

Some people are 'born smokers'

Monday, 31 January 2011

A discovery that explains why some people cannot give up tobacco may lead to new anti-smoking treatments.

Out of Africa: stone tools rewrite history of man as a global species

Friday, 28 January 2011

Steve Connor: A stone-age archaeological site in the Arabian peninsula has become the focus of a radical theory of how early humans made the long walk from their evolutionary homeland of Africa to become a globally-dispersed species.

MPs back drive against animal testing

Friday, 28 January 2011

More than 100 MPs have backed a campaign to end the sale of cosmetics developed with the help of animal experiments.

GM mosquitoes deployed to control Asia's dengue fever

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Steve Connor: Insect carrying artificial fragment of DNA designed to curb fertility has been released for the first time in south-east Asia.

Pesticide linked to bee deaths should be suspended, MPs told

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

A new generation of pesticides is implicated in the widespread deaths of bees and other pollinators and should be suspended in Britain while the Government reviews new scientific evidence about their effects, MPs were told yesterday.

Report advocates GM crops in food supply measures

Monday, 24 January 2011

Genetically-modified crops are among measures needed to tackle problems with global food supplies that could see prices soar, leading scientists said today.

The smelling test: The genetics of olfaction

Monday, 24 January 2011

Laura Spinney: Why are some people more sensitive to odours than others? The answer lies in our genes.

Scientists face 'shocking levels' of vilification over discoveries

Monday, 24 January 2011

Scientists are being subjected to shocking levels of personal vilification and distrust, Britain's most senior scientist has warned.

Scientists fear kilograms don't weigh as much as they used to

Monday, 24 January 2011

When is a kilogram not a kilogram? When it starts to weigh less. It came into existence more than two centuries ago and has become the standard unit of weight around the world, from the shopping malls of Europe to the souks of the Middle East, but scientists believe that the reign of the kilo as we know it is about to come to an end.

GM food: the arguments we can’t ignore

Monday, 24 January 2011

The Foresight Report on Food and Farming Futures, commissioned by the British government and broken by Steve Connor, is a timely contribution to the debate on food security.

2.4 billion extra people, no more land: how will we feed the world in 2050?

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Steve Connor reveals how scientists propose a major policy shift to tackle one of the great challenges of the 21st century

Out of the spaceship – and into a sandpit

Saturday, 22 January 2011

More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon, the multinational crew of Russia's Mars 500 experiment will finally leave their spaceship in the coming weeks, and venture out – into an adjacent sandpit.

Last year was second hottest on record, say scientists

Friday, 21 January 2011

Steve Connor: In Britain it ended in freezing temperatures and weeks of snow and ice. Globally, though, 2010 was still the second warmest year on record, according to the Met Office.

Video: Mission to Mercury planned

Thursday, 20 January 2011

The European Space Agency prepares to send a spacecraft for a closer look at the planet nearest the sun.

Horoscopes: A sign of the times

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Whether you're a believer or a sceptic, the allure of horoscopes is hard to ignore. But new findings suggest there may be more to the zodiac than meets the eye. By Genevieve Roberts

Skeleton of Thames whale goes on show

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Laid bare, the remains of a beast that captivated a nation one dark winter.

Obesity problem in horses for leisure

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

At least one in five horses used for leisure is overweight or obese, research revealed today.

Monks' diaries help experts make climate forecast

Monday, 17 January 2011

Ancient weather records, including details gleaned from monks' diaries, are helping scientists work out how and why climates have changed over the past 500 years.

The biology of a record-breaker

Monday, 17 January 2011

Nick Duerden: Behind medal-winning performances on the track or in the pool, today's sports are driven by discoveries made in the laboratory.

Organic milk is better for you, say scientists

Monday, 17 January 2011

Organic sector receives boost with study that suggests organic milk is healthier than the ordinary variety.

This isn't about climate change – but it may be the face of the future

Saturday, 15 January 2011

Rain in Brazil, rain in Australia and rain in Sri Lanka. Rain is the factor that links all three large-scale disasters unfolding before our eyes in these very different regions of the world.

Expert warns of cyber attack on National Grid

Saturday, 15 January 2011

James Martin warned that the only sure way of safeguarding the grid is to disconnect it from the web.

GM lab creates chicken that cannot spread bird flu

Friday, 14 January 2011

Steve Connor: Scientists have developed a way of curbing the spread of avian flu with the help of genetically modified chickens that do not spread the virus.