NASA's Opportunity rover has emerged from the gaping crater it has explored for nearly a year – now it will study rocks called cobbles
22:23 29 August 2008 2 comments
The virus recently found on a space station laptop is only the latest extraterrestrial computer glitch – another was caused by floating urine
17:20 29 August 2008 3 comments
A computer worm found on a station laptop is benign, but its discovery is a 'wake-up call' to fortify computer security in space
17:20 29 August 2008 6 comments
A device designed to detect leaks on the space shuttle could help pinpoint cancer cells during brain surgery
16:22 29 August 2008 3 comments
Physical or sexual abuse doubles the odds that a child – from Puerto Rico, at least – will suffer from asthma
16:15 29 August 2008
UK police have found a way to reveal fingerprints left on spent bullet casing – the technique could also expose terrorist bomb makers
13:42 29 August 2008 9 comments
Huge swathes of the Western Amazon were cleared 600 years ago for an urban network of towns, villages and hamlets, remains reveal
11:22 29 August 2008 12 comments
A new chemical process can blow apart the super-tough bonds in fluorocarbon compounds, something that was almost impossible until now
10:26 29 August 2008 8 comments
As election day approaches, self-confessed floating voters have often already made up their minds – they just don't know it yet
10:19 29 August 2008 5 comments
Charged particles are being accelerated to near-light speeds by a doughnut-shaped magnetic field around the nebula's famous pulsar
21:04 28 August 2008 16 comments
Purdue University has demoted the scientist who claimed to have triggered 'bubble fusion' in 2002
15:48 28 August 2008 18 comments
Fears that emissions legislation would put European industries at a disadvantage may result in watered-down plans for tackling climate change
14:33 28 August 2008 23 comments
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been signed by Iraq – the 179th country to do so
13:25 28 August 2008 2 comments
Quality of life, health and life expectancy varied dramatically, depending on socioeconomic conditions, finds a WHO report
12:46 28 August 2008 42 comments
As most of us suspected, weekends tend to be wetter, in Spain at least – the finding hints that human activity may affect weather cycles
11:03 28 August 2008 11 comments
Car seats that warm up take the chill off a wintery morning drive, but they may also be harming men's sperm production and quality
10:00 28 August 2008 10 comments
After two massive galaxy clusters collided, their gas slowed down but their dark matter continued on unimpeded
23:07 27 August 2008 14 comments
The cores of a motley crew of nearby dwarf galaxies all weigh about 10 million Suns, suggesting galaxies need at least that much mass to form
18:55 27 August 2008 22 comments
Ocean-floor life everywhere is kept in check by viruses that infect microbes and prevent nutrients rising up the food chain
18:20 27 August 2008 5 comments
A new gene therapy that grows hearing cells in mice will not itself be of use to deaf people, but might point to new ways to reverse deafness in humans
18:01 27 August 2008 10 comments
If a risky decision just feels right, your brain may have had some subliminal help in reaching it, says a study of gambling decisions
17:35 27 August 2008 8 comments
NASA's Opportunity rover is climbing out of Victoria Crater after one of its wheels seemed to show signs of failing
17:30 27 August 2008 4 comments
The bare soil left behind by retreating glaciers is soon taken over by bacteria that prepare the ground for life on a larger scale
11:48 27 August 2008 33 comments
Movie Camera Surfaces in computer games can now have added 3D realism using a system that compares photos taken with and without flash lighting
12:30 27 August 2008 22 comments
A strain of noisy laboratory mice shows all the signs of autism that are used to diagnose human beings, and could help studies of the condition
01:00 27 August 2008 9 comments
Fishing bans might protect some reef inhabitants, but they don't seem to help corals bounce back from damage caused by global warming
01:00 27 August 2008
After taking its first data, the NASA telescope formerly known as GLAST is renamed for the late Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi
22:25 26 August 2008 6 comments
