Saturday December 26, 2009
Incoming alerts
We need to take a more determined look for nasties in our southern skies, writes John Dunnett. Our survival may depend on it.
Tuesday December 22, 2009
Scientists believe they may have detected dark matter
THE hunt for dark matter - the mysterious substance thought to account for a quarter of the mass of the universe - may be over.
Saturday December 19, 2009
DNA of tobacco damage laid bare
THE damage that cigarettes and sunlight wreak on human DNA has been laid bare for the first time, along with the valiant, if eventually futile, effort of cells to repair the harm done.
Thursday December 10, 2009
Big bang: atom smasher records first high-energy collisions
The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman says.
Wednesday December 9, 2009
Stars align in desert to orbit spaceship
MOJAVE, California: Sir Richard Branson has offered the first public glimpse of the aircraft he hopes will become the first commercial vehicle to send passengers into space.
Friday December 4, 2009
Part man, part machine: amputee gains robotic hand
ROME: An Italian man who lost his left forearm in a car crash has been successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.
Wednesday December 2, 2009
Scientists at full throttle to re-create Big Bang
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern near Geneva are celebrating a major milestone after the machine broke energy records on Monday to become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.
Scientists at full throttle to re-create Big Bang
LONDON: Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva are celebrating after the machine broke energy records to become the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.
Tuesday December 1, 2009
Tuck into some soggy pork, straight out of the test tube
THE move towards artificially engineered food has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time.
Wednesday November 25, 2009
My experience as the living 'dead'
After a man who went into a 23-year coma is revealed to have been conscious all along, Geoffrey Lean relives his own bewildering ordeal
Tuesday November 24, 2009
Mars was wet, wet, wet, research reveals
A new detailed map of Mars shows it had a vast ocean and a rainy climate.
Atom smasher restart an 'enormous success': scientists
Scientists have hailed the restart of the Large Hadron Collider as an "enormous success" as two beams began circulating simultaneously in the world's biggest atom smasher.
Sunday November 22, 2009
Goodnight from the museum
A multimillionaire with no knowledge of 'museumology' leaves a lasting impression, writes Steve Meacham.
Science, fiction collide as atom smasher powers up
THE world's biggest atom smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, was restarted yesterday.
Saturday November 21, 2009
Atom smasher back on collision course with history
MORE than a year after an explosion shut it down, the world's biggest and most expensive scientific experiment is set to restart today.
Thursday November 19, 2009
Study backs theory Hobbit was distinct species
Researchers have added new weight to theories that a prehistoric "hobbit" found by Australian and Indonesian scientists in Indonesia is an unknown human species.
Wednesday November 18, 2009
One small crawl for Britain may mean another giant step for humankind
LONDON: Britain's aspirations to become a spacefaring nation inched a little closer as thousands of microscopic worms boarded the Atlantis space shuttle at Cape Canaveral and blasted off for a mission to the international space station.
Sunday November 15, 2009
One giant sip for mankind
A NEW chapter in space exploration has been opened up after NASA confirmed that a mission to "bomb" the moon had found "significant quantities" of frozen water.
Saturday November 14, 2009
NASA finds water on the moon
A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency said heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration and boosting hopes of a permanent lunar base.
Definitely a superior sort of mandarin
TWENTY-FIVE years of work at the CSIRO to create seedless mandarins have finally borne fruit.
Thursday November 5, 2009
Baby Z with fatal brain disorder cured by drug tested on mice
An infant born with a rare and fatal brain disorder has been cured by a drug that had only previously been tested on mice.
Earth takes a deep breath and has a growth spurt
TWICE in Earth's history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts, and each time new organisms emerged that were a million times larger than anything that had existed before.
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Levi-Strauss dead at 100
French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, whose work deeply influenced Western thinking about civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher Plon said on Tuesday.
Friday October 30, 2009
Scientists spout new theories about teapot-dribble mystery
SCIENTISTS have worked out how to end the problem of the dribbling teapot.
Big star burst shines light on universe's birth
PARIS: It took 13 billion years to reach Earth, but astronomers have seen the light of an exploding mega-star that is the most distant object yet detected, two studies published yesterday reported.
Thursday October 29, 2009
When science took a long, light look at itself
WHEN science geeks appear in comic books it's usually only a few frames before they rip off their glasses and checked shirts to turn into action superheroes.
Wednesday October 28, 2009
Fossilised skull of sea monster found
British authorities say the fossilised skull of a giant sea monster has been found off England's southern coast.
Sunday October 25, 2009
Galaxy found at the outer edge of time
SCIENTISTS have found the most distant galaxy cluster ever observed and believe the discovery might provide clues as to how the universe was formed.
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Heavens could be full of planets
WASHINGTON: Astronomers are finding planets by the dozen. A team of European astronomers said they had found 32 ''exoplanets'' orbiting distant stars.
Thursday October 15, 2009
'Extraordinary': comatose woman gives birth
Doctors in Germany have hailed as extraordinary the birth of a healthy baby boy to a 40-year-old woman who had been in a coma for the last 22 weeks of her pregnancy - a world first.
