In Short

Marking what would have been the 101st birthday of Bletchley code-breaker Alan Turing, we look at the Enigma Machine...

How much of a threat are solar storms to electricity grids?

Plans are afoot to double the size of the Liverpool Telescope.

How is technology altering the way tennis is played?

Can a compound in red wine protect against heart attack and cancer? Phillip Broadwith investigates resveratrol

Clinical Neuropsychologist Barbara Sahakian explains why some people find it difficult to make the right decisions...

Pubs across the UK have started accepting virtual money called 'bitcoins' in return for pints.

Google announces the deployment of a fleet of balloons to bring Internet access and WiFi within reach in remote places...

Lars Öhrström on phosphoric acid: Crucial for crops and DNA's backbone, it's the energy currency of the...

Ginny Smith talked to scientists performing at Chetenham Science Festival, as well as trying out some hands- on...

A team in Singapore have developed an invisibility cloak that can hide goldfish and cats...

It repairs objects, heals wounds and fights crime. It puts the ‘super’ in superglue. Emma Stoye introduces cyanoacrylate

Is Michael Douglas right when he claims his oral cancer was caused by HPV?

The stuff of action films and horrifying news stories, Simon Cotton introduces the infamous nerve agent, VX

It's 60 years since the first complete ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay! How did they...

It's a catalyst, an abrasive, a bright white pigment and the basis for beautiful gemstones - Neil Withers...

A massive tornado a mile wide ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma. But what's the science behind these...

Simon Cotton introduces us to cathinone, the active ingredient in the stimulant Khat

How are random numbers generated, and how could it be proved - to the satisfaction of a mathematician, that a number...

Actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy because she carries a gene called BRCA1, which greatly increases her...

Emma Stoye on digoxin, a toxic product of foxgloves, and the birth of modern pharmacology

A campaign has been launched to stop science toys being sold by some stores as "toys for boys". But what does...

Neil Withers recalls making this groundbreaking superconductor as a student

Face-lift for old artwork - Ginny Smith visited the Fitzwilliam Museum to find out how oil paintings are restored to...