Science Articles, Interviews & Questions

11 March 2010

Antimatter can make anything - even anybody - vanish merely by touching it. But at the moment antimatter itself appears...

07 March 2010

Researchers have discovered a key reason why some people are susceptible to TB and others aren’t. Publishing in the...

07 March 2010

Researchers have identified how a hand held magnetic device could mitigate the pain of migraine...

07 March 2010

Can nanotechnology make solar cells more efficient? We find out how tweaking a surface at the nano-scale could allow...

07 March 2010

We sent Meera Senthilingam out to find out how cleverly designing solar cells into the structure of a building can make...

07 March 2010

Flexible solar cells could revolutionise the way solar cells can be used, we hear how they're made and where they...

07 March 2010

How is money made, and how are the different colours formed?

07 March 2010

Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...

07 March 2010

Scientists have found evidence for a magnetic field around the Earth at least 250 million years earlier than previously...

07 March 2010

A new study has shown that a blast from a powerful magnet can knock out the symptoms of a migraine.

07 March 2010

Scientists have discovered a chemical signature that indicates when a bowel cancer has spread.

05 March 2010

This week archaeologists have described the discovery of some of the earliest evidence for advanced human thought....

28 February 2010

Healthy coral reefs come packed with colourful fish and a new study reveals that the some fish send out private...

28 February 2010

New fossil evidence suggests there were gigantic sharks lurking in Cretaceous seas, around 90 million years ago, but...

28 February 2010

Researchers in Oxford and California have found a way to stop female mosquitoes from growing wings, keeping them...

28 February 2010

One quarter of the star clusters in our galaxy may, in fact, be aliens, according to a paper in Monthly Notices of the...

28 February 2010

An estimated 32 billion cubic metres of clean water are lost through leaky pipes every year. But there might be a...

28 February 2010

Most of the water that we use comes from reservoirs. These artificial lakes are often created by damming a river then...

28 February 2010

Eugene Cloete explains how the NEPAD water initiative aims to bring together scientists working in the field of water...

28 February 2010

Richard Harding explains how the WATer and global CHange Network, WATCH, is setting about monitoring how water usage...