Science news articles including breaking science news stories and recent scientific discoveries.

10 January 2012

A little fish is caught in the act of mimicking the extraordinary mimic octopus

08 January 2012

A fuel cell has been developed which can run off the sugars in an insect....

08 January 2012

A pair of new American spacecraft entered orbit about the Moon over the new year period, with the aim of measuring the...

08 January 2012

A new method of determining the structure of a crystal has been developed which can measure the structure even though...

08 January 2012

The reputation of the famous Stradivarius and Guaneri names on violins has been dented by a new study showing that, in...

18 December 2011

A camera capable of taking a trillion frames per second has been constructed.

18 December 2011

A Gamma Ray Burst recorded on Christmas day 2010 was a special gift to astronomers...

18 December 2011

Not finding nemo is in fact more likely scenario, since it’s been revealed that one in six species featured in the...

12 December 2011

The biggest study so far into cancer risk factors confirms our understanding of the lifestyle choices that may lead to...

11 December 2011

Bedding 77,000 years old has been uncovered at a cave site in South Africa....

11 December 2011

How does cancer spread? And how we can stop it from spreading? Published in this week's issue of the journal...

06 December 2011

Submarine springs reveal grim future for reefs in acidic oceans

06 December 2011

Caffeine detects traces of human poo in waterways

06 December 2011

Giant lake beneath the ice on Europa could harbour life

05 December 2011

A new study indicates that nicotine primes the brain for cocaine - by altering the structure of a gene linked to...

04 December 2011

This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 & 2 –...

04 December 2011

This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale,...

02 December 2011

A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection.

02 December 2011

A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US...

01 December 2011

A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier - the system that protects and chemically cocoons the...

27 November 2011

A Diode for light has been constructed, a true one way mirror.

27 November 2011

Normally water freezes at 0 celsius but it can stay liquid much much colder, just how cold has been calculated.

25 November 2011

Cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs are safe and a very effective way to reduce the risk of heart attacks,...

25 November 2011

Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic...