Splattered windscreen bugs unveil a biodiversity treasure-trove

How many living species are there in the world? It’s a huge question that no-doubt comes with a really huge answer. But finding that answer is no mean feat. Sending scientists out into the world to find, describe and name all the living things there are is a massive task. Now scientists from Americ...

Memory Chip Camera

Digital cameras have got immensely better and far cheaper over the last 20 years but they are still not perfect . They are still expensive and complicated partly because they are analog devices, each pixel converts light into a variable amount of charge, and then circuitry has to digitise this volta...

Fisheries mixed up by climate change

More predictions have emerged of how climate change is likely to affect the planet. This time, scientists from the Sea Around Us project based at the University of British Colombia in Canada, have turned their attention to how the shifting climate could impact the world’s fisheries. And as you might...

Tiny nuclear battery

Modern electronics is getting smaller and more capable all the time, and all sorts of sensors and communication systems are being developed to sense chemicals, forces, etc and communicate them back to a base station. But you still have to power the systems, and chemical batteries have a limited life...

The 2009 Nobel Science Prizes

Richard Van Noorden reveals the winners of this years Nobel Science prizes as well as an insight into why their work was so important...