Science News

Gotta Lotta Bottle

Diet-conscious New Zealanders may soon be able to tuck into naturally "skimmed" milk thanks to a programme set up to breed a herd of cows that produce milk containing les...

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and may even save your life

US researchers have found that canny moths impersonate the sounds made by their bad-tasting relatives to ward of bat-attacks....

Virgin Shark Gives Birth

Back in 2001, a rather far-fetched story hit the headlines declaring that a baby shark had been born in an aquarium tank to a virgin female shark. And it turns out, the immaculate ...

Ants use their own bodies for rapid road repairs

This week we heard some bizarre news from the world of the ants.  It seems that some types of ants are prepared to get walked all over to let their fellow ants bring home the ...

It's all in the wrist, or should that be index finger?

A study of 75 school children has shown that a photocopy of their hands is all that's needed to predict their literacy and mathematical skills....

What’s the matter?

Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have created a new form of matter, which they published in the journal Science this week.  Unfortunately it’s not a form of chocolat...

Killing cancer by stealth

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in Surrey have been testing a new way to kill bowel cancer cells with a kind of “smart bomb”.  The tec...

The virus that came in from the cold

US researchers have performed the microbiological equivalent of fighting fire with fire by showing that animals infected with members of the herpes virus family are much better at ...

Al-uminating answer to fuel cell problem

US scientists have stumbled on a safe way to make large amounts of hydrogen, on-demand, to fuel environmentally-friendly vehicles. Jerry Woodall, from Purdue University, has found ...

Turtle conservation could be working

Numbers of endangered sea turtles are on the up in British and French waters, thanks to conservation efforts on the other side of the Atlantic. That’s acco...