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Astronaut's son blasts off to space station
12 10 2008 Video game magnate Richard Garriott launched into space on Sunday while his father, a NASA astronaut, looked on
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Why a gift speaks a thousand words
12 10 2008 As lovers and mourners know, a bunch of flowers speaks volumes the way the brain makes sense of such gestures may explain why
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Visiting dwarfs put home-grown galaxies in the shade
12 10 2008 Dwarf galaxies that recently arrived near the Milky Way may shine brighter than homegrown ones
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Gates declares war on farm animal disease
11 10 2008 A $28-million fund is set to revolutionise the struggle against diseases that kill farm animals and cost poor farmers their livelihood
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Russia says Soyuz space landings will be safe
11 10 2008 A day ahead of a Soyuz launch, Russian space authorities say they have improved safety measures for when the spaceships return to Earth
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Saturn's rings may be remains of ancient moon
11 10 2008 Early in its history, Saturn's fast spin meant it could harbour a moon for longer than the other planets and then came the late bombardment...
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Avoiding waves that go bump in the flight
11 10 2008 A new model that predicts gravitational waves caused by fast moving air could help pilots avoid clear air turbulence
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Over-budget Mars mission granted stay of execution
11 10 2008 NASA is pressing ahead with plans to launch its Mars Science Lab rover in 2009 - but it's not clear where it will get the money to do so
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Space tourist confident ahead of Soyuz launch
11 10 2008 Video game tycoon Richard Garriott, who is set to lift off on a Soyuz craft on Sunday, is unfazed by the prospect of a bumpy ride back to Earth
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US wildfires pushed ozone past legal limits
10 10 2008 Californian fires in 2007 pushed levels of the pollutant way past what is considered safe the effects may have been felt as far as Nevada
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US climate fix could help solve financial crisis
10 10 2008 If the US focused on curbing global warming it could help pull the world from the financial brink, say Al Gore's environmental policy experts
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The greenhouse effect that may be cooling the climate
10 10 2008 The roofs of Spanish horticulture hothouses are reflecting so much sunlight that local temperatures have dropped in recent decades
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Our psychology helps politicians bend the truth
10 10 2008 Mental shortcuts that we use to make sense of the world may explain why we so often let politicians pull the wool over our eyes
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Digital blueprint for fish created
10 10 2008 The computer model was created by tracking all the cells in a zebrafish embryo for the first 24 hours of its existence
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Hubble replacement part has glitches of its own
10 10 2008 A spare part for a failed Hubble instrument has unresolved 'anomalies' that could further delay a mission to fix the telescope
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Hand transplant shows lost limbs are never forgotten
09 10 2008 An amputee has regained feeling in a newly attached hand the finding hints that the brain never completely erases connections with lost limbs
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First synthetic prion could settle vCJD controversy
09 10 2008 The first man-made replicas of the odd proteins may help scientists confirm what really causes the devastating brain disease
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Goldmine bug DNA may be key to alien life
09 10 2008 A bacterial community discovered living in complete isolation deep in a goldmine has astrobiologists buzzing
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Fossils of dancing shrimp show earliest group behaviour
09 10 2008 Newly discovered ancient chains of up to 20 crustaceans linked head-to-toe are the earliest record of collective behaviour in any animal
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Gecko-grip material aims to be the end of glue
09 10 2008 A forest of tangled nanotubes grips slippery surfaces more firmly than some geckos, yet can be unstuck with a quick tug
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Hidden black holes may roam Milky Way
09 10 2008 The black hole cores of the galaxies that built the Milky Way may still be floating around and we may have spotted them without realising (full text available to subscribers)
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Testicles could provide 'ethical' stem cells
09 10 2008 Testicular cells have been "reprogrammed" into versatile stem cells they would potentially avoid the need source such cells from embryos
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Love is the drug for male finches
09 10 2008 Some people get their kicks from drugs and alcohol, but male birds seem to get equally high while serenading a mate
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Galactic hit-and-run leaves trail of destruction
09 10 2008 The collision stripped gas from one galaxy, and might have caused the other one to heat up and stop forming stars
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World gets first live webcast of a lion hunt
08 10 2008 Footage of the big cats hunting wildebeest has been beamed live over the internet for the first time, allowing viewers to glimpse nature in the raw
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