Science

Inside Science

For the love of God...

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Steve Connor: Atheist scientists denounce �1m prize as an underhand attempt to promote religion.

Video: Capsule docks at International Space Station

Thursday, 7 April 2011

A Russian capsule docks with the International Space Station, after blasting off two days ago from Kazakhstan.

Space privateers to launch biggest rocket since 70s

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Kunal Dutta: The space race is no longer just between nations. Space X, a private firm based in California, has stolen a march on Nasa by unveiling plans to launch the most powerful private rocket ever built.

Branson's latest stunt? To plunge new depths...

Thursday, 7 April 2011

His past endeavours include space tourism and attempts to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon.

Eyes grown in dish from cells

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Embryonic eyes have been grown from cells in a dish by scientists. The pouch-like "optic cups" grew spontaneously from transformed, self-organising embryonic stem cells taken from mice.

Arctic fresh water build-up could spell trouble for UK

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Steve Connor: Scientists fear huge volumes of meltwater from ice caps may divert the Gulf Stream.

Video: Endeavour's final spaceflight delayed

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Endeavour's final spaceflight has been delayed to avoid a "schedule conflict" with a Russian cargo flight.

Scientists' step towards test for Alzheimer's disease

Monday, 4 April 2011

Steve Connor: New findings could be used predict the likelihood of the disease, but will anyone want to know?

Jodrell Bank plans giant telescope

Monday, 4 April 2011

The Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire will be the headquarters for a £1.3bn project to build the world's biggest radio telescope.

More than one in 10 nuclear power plants at risk from earthquakes

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Jonathan Owen: Many stations are in countries that would be less able than Japan to cope with disasters.

Yuri Gagarin: The man who fell to Earth

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Fifty years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. It was a wondrous achievement - so why did the Russians try to mount a major cover-up on the cosmonaut's return?

Does quantum mechanics offer the best way to protect our most valuable data?

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Criminals no longer need to swagger into banks like John Dillinger with their faces masked. Modern-day robbers are more likely to be armed with a degree in computer science than a tommy gun.

Top scientist backs �3bn Sellafield plant, despite �2bn failure on same site

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Steve Connor: British taxpayers should invest in new facility despite the site in Cumbria already having a similar plant which is labelled one of the biggest industrial failures in British history.

Coalition adviser orders review of 'safe' pesticides

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Steve Connor: It is feared that the growing use of "neonicotinoid" pesticides could explain the dramatic decline of bees and other insects.

Nasa grounds Cameron's pricy space mission

Monday, 28 March 2011

When one of his Hollywood blockbusters runs over budget or behind schedule, as they almost always do, James Cameron tends to confound the naysayers by eventually producing a hugely lucrative commercial hit. But real life isn't always so forgiving.

Upper classes really do look down their noses at the rest of us

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Genevieve Roberts: New research shows that the way we live directly affects the length of our bodies – and our lives.

Cast-offs with the 'contagion of celebrity' fuel a growing market

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Psychologists say collectors of showbiz items hope some of the glamour rubs off on them

First sperm are grown in lab

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Infertile men have received new hope of fathering children after scientists grew mammalian sperm in a laboratory for the first time.

Science: Banks will boost research by £100m

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Bankers will fund a £100 million boost to British science to pay for new facilities, maintenance and equipment, George Osborne announced yesterday.

Video: Nasa launches human shuttle

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

2,000 employees form an outline of the iconic spaceship at the Kennedy Space Centre.

Statue of first man in space gets lift-off in London, 50 years late

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Rob Sharp: As the first man to rocket into space in 1961, Yuri Gagarin was f�ted in his homeland as a hero of the Cold War.

Seoul joins 'sacred' volcano research

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Scientists from South and North Korea could conduct joint research into an active volcano extolled in the North as the sacred birthplace of Kim Jong-il.

Steve Connor: Working out what's real in Brian Cox's vivid universe

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Lab Notes

Volcanoes' role in origins of life found after 50 years lost in a lab

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

An experiment carried out more than 50 years ago has revealed that volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the formation of the first organic building blocks of life, which led to the first replicating lifeforms on earth about 4.5 billion years ago.

Click to watch video