Article archive for category "Science"
Thursday 28 August 2008
- Oil spill kills 2,000 penguins in southern Brazil
- Computer virus in space - even NASA's astronauts get hit
Wednesday 27 August 2008
- In photos: 'Turkey Archeology - Marcus Aurelius'
- WWF: UN climate change talks in Ghana show some progress
Monday 25 August 2008
- More evidence in megafauna murder mystery
- Wolves spreading westward across Europe
Saturday 23 August 2008
- Phoenix examines new soil sample
Thursday 21 August 2008
- New round of climate change talks gets underway in Ghana
Monday 18 August 2008
- New minor planet found in solar system, scientists say
- Even old brains learn new tricks, German scientists say
- Pastoralists need help to cope with climate change, charity says
Sunday 17 August 2008
- In photos: 'Lunar Eclipse'
Saturday 16 August 2008
- California plans world's largest solar energy plant
Friday 15 August 2008
- Ariane 5 launches Japanese and US satellites
Thursday 14 August 2008
- Poaching and deforestation threaten Ugandan chimps
Wednesday 13 August 2008
- US Navy agrees to limit sonar use
- Conergy to expand Asia's largest solar plant
- Decline of Antarctic blue whale led to paradoxical fall in krill
Wednesday 06 August 2008
- Bulgarian archaeologists unearth Thracian carriage
Tuesday 05 August 2008
- Dogs made to order? Korean firm produces cloned canines for sale
- Mars finding dims chance of life
- Monkeys, apes, being eaten into extinction, says study
Monday 04 August 2008
- EU calls for public comments on future climate strategy
- Orchids get a buzz out of wasps
- We all started out as diamonds in the rough, German scientists say
- 'That thing is a 'person'' - improving your relationship with objects
Saturday 02 August 2008
- In photos: 'Solar Eclipse Around the World'
Friday 01 August 2008
- Shamed Korean cloning hero barred from human stem-cell work
Thursday 31 July 2008
- Phoenix instruments confirm water on Mars, mission extended (Roundup)
- NASA to extend Phoenix's Mars mission through September
- Fierce jellyfish spread in Baltic Sea
- 'Cool UN' initiative heats up to fight climate change
Wednesday 30 July 2008
- Big birds breeding out of control in Germany
Tuesday 29 July 2008
- Excitement at humpback whale visit to Baltic Sea
Monday 28 July 2008
- Richard Branson reveals mothership for space tourists
- Mutation believed to be cause of white horses
- A placebo can be performance-enhancing
Friday 25 July 2008
- Mild winters and large bird flocks pose threat to crops
Thursday 24 July 2008
- US states, Canadian provinces to start emissions trading in 2012
Wednesday 23 July 2008
- ANALYSIS: Space dreams dip low as NASA marks 50 years available
Tuesday 22 July 2008
- Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George - first time father at 80?
Monday 21 July 2008
- DNA fingerprinting proves villagers are descendants of caveman
- German archaeologists locate site of hippodrome at ancient Olympia
- Science catching up with a pestilent moth
- Need home help? Care-O-Bot 3 is at your service, scientists say
- World's oldest bible online: 4th century manuscript
Sunday 20 July 2008
- Climate worries about wetlands drive Brazil meeting
Saturday 19 July 2008
- Light rays used to judge health of plants
Thursday 17 July 2008
- Amateur finds 700,000-year-old Java Man in German quarry
Wednesday 16 July 2008
- German Archaeological Institute unveils Jordanian artefacts
Monday 14 July 2008
- Vietnam's coastline may change, German scientists warn
Saturday 12 July 2008
- 'Best Friends Again' dog cloning auction nets over 600,000 dollars
Thursday 10 July 2008
- Commercial ship emissions could endanger Arctic, says new study
- Europe Parliament approves military use of Galileo satellite
- Whale watchers disrupt whaling ship off Iceland
Wednesday 09 July 2008
- Argentinian glacier Perito Moreno has rare winter calf
Tuesday 08 July 2008
- Czech Republic first from Soviet bloc to join Europe's space agency
- German scientists forecast loss of Vietnam coastline
- NASA schedules final shuttle launches through 2010
Monday 07 July 2008
- Argentine glacier Perito Moreno about to break
Sunday 06 July 2008
- Teenager discovers new breed of tropical flower
Friday 04 July 2008
- Ancient Greek ship 'Argo' sets sail once again
Thursday 03 July 2008
- Volcanoes, shrinkage have shaped Mercury's surface, NASA says
- Wildlife groups call for Asian effort to save pangolins
Wednesday 02 July 2008
- In photos: 'Greece Recreation of Ancient Ship'
- Alarming fall in the number of Nepal's endangered tigers
- Kenyan environmentalists blast biofuel plans in coastal wetlands
Tuesday 01 July 2008
- EU launches procurement for remaining Galileo satellites
- Joint US-European solar mission ends
Monday 30 June 2008
- After grazing on Saturn's rings, Cassini moves in on moons
Sunday 29 June 2008
- Dragonflies may provide alert system for water pollution
Saturday 28 June 2008
- US scientist: North Pole could melt by September
- Report: Fly research could help hone military spy-ware
Friday 27 June 2008
- 'Atlantic Alps' made into protected area
Thursday 26 June 2008
- Minerals needed for life found on Mars, NASA says
- German scientists plan satellite to hunt space rocks
- California proposes major emissions plan
- Latin America campaigns to prevent whale hunting in southern seas
- Spain to push for 'human rights' for apes
Wednesday 25 June 2008
- Japan can continue to hunt 1,000 whales per year
- Expo of greatest Babylon treasures opens in Berlin
- More tsunami warning centres to get nuclear test monitoring data
- Huge deal with US sugar giant could help Everglades
Tuesday 24 June 2008
- European Patent Office hears dispute on human stem cells
- Taiwan, US, Japan, SKorea to study typhoon formation
- Can the G8 act as one on climate change?
Monday 23 June 2008
- New super-explosives pack a wallop without polluting the environment
Saturday 21 June 2008
- White stuff on Mars is ice, scientists say
Friday 20 June 2008
- Ancient mummy opened: Scythian cavalier had bone disease
Thursday 19 June 2008
- Fishing ban finally gives Ohrid trout a lease on life
Wednesday 18 June 2008
- Brussels: EU 'well on track' to Kyoto goals, but problems remain
Tuesday 17 June 2008
- Polar bear shot after trip from Greenland to Iceland (Roundup)
- Ancient Egyptian official building uncovered in south
- Polar bear makes ice floe trip from Greenland to Iceland
Monday 16 June 2008
- In photos: 'USA Shuttle Launch Pad Damage'
- Astronomers find planetary system with three super-earths
- German scientists invent wireless bionic eyeball to cure blindness
- NASA to let media inspect damage to launch pad at Kennedy
Sunday 15 June 2008
- G8 science ministers want stronger cooperation on climate change
Saturday 14 June 2008
- Discovery shuttle lands back on Earth after lab mission
Friday 13 June 2008
- Discovery shuttle cleared for landing despite loss of part
Thursday 12 June 2008
- Israeli scientists revive extinct native date palm
Wednesday 11 June 2008
- Climate group calls on rapidly developing world to tackle emissions
- Phoenix to cook Martian dirt after filling "oven," NASA says
- In photos: 'Space Shuttle Discovery Heads Home'
- In photos: 'USA Glast Launch'
- US scientist wins Finnish award for drug delivery systems
- Space telescope launched to spy on black-holes
- Space shuttle Discovery heads home after 14-day mission
Tuesday 10 June 2008
- Discovery set for return to Earth
- In photos: 'Jordan Archeology - 'oldest' Christian church in the world'
- Wolves breeding successfully in Germany, conservationists say
- Indiana Jones helps link tiger threat to global poverty
- Astronauts brief Earth from International Space Station
Monday 09 June 2008
- Some 100 dead oil-stained penguins wash up on Uruguayan coast
- Nighttime serenading enables lemurs to find mates in the dark
- Jungle sloths not as slothful as city sloths, German researchers say
- Archaeologists in Jordan unearth 'first church in world'
Sunday 08 June 2008
- Discovery astronauts in 3rd spacewalk for ISS work
Saturday 07 June 2008
- First ever climate change bill melts away in US Senate
Friday 06 June 2008
- Discovery astronauts conduct second spacewalk
Thursday 05 June 2008
- Toilet fixed and Japanese lab opened on space station
Wednesday 04 June 2008
- Inventors of new materials win 'Spanish Nobel'
- Discovery astronauts install Japanese module
Tuesday 03 June 2008
- Discovery astronauts commence spacewalk
- Rat bones show first New Zealanders settled 700 years ago
Monday 02 June 2008
- In photos: 'Space shuttle Discovery docks'
- Discovery arrives at space station, toilet pump and all
- Scientists to discuss sex, love with robots
- Super oil absorber developed to sop up spills
Saturday 31 May 2008
- In Pictures: 'USA Shuttle Discovery Launch'
- Shuttle Discovery rocketing to space station with lab, toilet fix
- Good weather expected as Japan's Kibo heads to space
Friday 30 May 2008
- First photos shown of isolated indigenous people in Amazonia
- Loud music, high-heels damaging ancient sites in Greece
- Mixed results seen at UN biodiversity conference
- UN biodiversity process moving like a snail, but moving
- UN biodiversity conference to agree on sharing nature's resources
Thursday 29 May 2008
- Mars rover unleashes robotic arm
- In photos: 'USA Shuttle Discovery Launch Preparations'
- UN conference to agree on sharing biodiversity benefits
- China's panda bears traumatized by recent earthquake
- Plaice in history: Australians detect world's oldest pregnancy
Wednesday 28 May 2008
- Talking again with Mars: Phoenix reached through radio detour
- Archaeologists unearth remains of fortified city in northern Sinai
- Norwegian prizes for astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience
- UN ecology experts look to new technologies provided by nature
- Merkel urges 'trailblazing decisions' to save biodiversity
- Mars probe hits radio glitch in search for life
Tuesday 27 May 2008
- Milky Way only half as big as thought, scientists say
- Mars probe begins tundra exploration (Roundup)
Monday 26 May 2008
- In photos: 'Phoenix Mars Lander'
- NASA's Phoenix Mars probe on track
- Do like the birdies do - birds instinctively pick healthiest fruit
- Warming could bring on attack of the killer cornflake
- Researchers: Climate change could create northern English red wine
- Mars probe makes scheduled landing on red planet
- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in final approach
Sunday 25 May 2008
- Mars probe lands successfully (Urgent)
- At half-time, some progress at bio-diversity talks
Saturday 24 May 2008
- G-8 in Japan open talks on halving greenhouse gas by 2050
Friday 23 May 2008
- Unique Dutch settlement discovered from Bronze Age
Thursday 22 May 2008
- Overfishing leading to extinction of many shark and ray species
- California company offers dog cloning auction
Wednesday 21 May 2008
- Dire outcome for forests as monkeys fall to hunter's bullet
- Australians face off over kangaroo cull
- NASA tension high before weekend Mars landing
Tuesday 20 May 2008
- King hands mathematics prize to French and US mathematicians
- Japan's Kibo headed to space; NASA confident in Soyuz
- Breakthrough film developed by Singapore researchers
- Iceland sets commercial whaling quota
- Monkeys under threat, scientists warn UN biodiversity conference
Monday 19 May 2008
- Japan's Kibo headed to space station; NASA confident in Soyuz
- Hybrid embryo - Progress or Frankenstein science?
- Act now on biodiversity, German host tells conference
- Fish stay slim to stay alive
- UN conference to discuss ways to stop destruction of nature
Sunday 18 May 2008
- Biopirates hijack traditional knowledge about nature
Saturday 17 May 2008
- Pesticide blamed for German bee deaths: apiarists seek payout
- Brazil's forest loss now linked to world food prices
Friday 16 May 2008
- No precursors to Sichuan quake, top seismologist says
- Greenpeace protests biofuels at Machu Picchu citadel
Thursday 15 May 2008
- Sheep's bottoms part Australia's wool growers
- Baltic Sea sharks under threat
- US says polar bear is threatened, but plans no protection
Wednesday 14 May 2008
- Scientists discover Milky Way's most recent exploding star
- Divers find ancient bust of Julius Caesar in French river
- Bee population collapse: multiple causes, says German expert
Tuesday 13 May 2008
- UN tree planting plan gets big response, aims for 7 billion trees
- Spacecraft set for touch down on Mars
- Polar bear protection headed to deep freeze
- Expert calms German alarm over Italy-based insects
- PREVIEW: UN conference aims to brake biodiversity loss
- Vietnam seizes a ton of monitor lizards
Friday 09 May 2008
- Missing link found in German rock - fossil record fixed
Thursday 08 May 2008
- California gives 271 million dollar in stem-cell grants
Wednesday 07 May 2008
- Alarm system protects Boston whales from shipping accidents
- Archaeologists find Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum, Ethiopia
Tuesday 06 May 2008
- Fabled absinthe all a hoax, German scientists say
Monday 05 May 2008
- US probes sea lion killings on west coast
- Tiny 3-D cameras can go where other cameras reach end of tether
Friday 02 May 2008
- Spiders found to court females with ultraviolet rays
- Shipwreck laden with treasures found off Namibian coast
Wednesday 30 April 2008
- German scientists discover secret of saline-tolerant wheat
- Albert Hofmann, discoverer of the psychedelic drug LSD, dies at 102
Monday 28 April 2008
- Highly toxic pesticide kills hippos, paralyses lions in Kenya
- Robots teaching girls to like science and technology
- Non-flammable phone battery eliminates over-charge hazard
- New Zealand scientists defrosting giant squid
- India launches rocket into space with 10 satellites
- Boy, 9, and grandfather find medieval silver treasure in Sweden
Sunday 27 April 2008
- Second satellite launched for Galileo navigation system
Thursday 24 April 2008
- In photos: 'Britain Cutty Sark Conservation'
- Emperor Nero's gate discovered in Cologne
- Longest New Zealand glacier shrinking 500 metres a year
Wednesday 23 April 2008
- World could lose antibiotics with disappearing amphibians
Tuesday 22 April 2008
- In photos: 'Germany Hanover Trade Fair'
- Environmental groups slam Greece for suspension from Kyoto Protocol
- Scientists discover first-ever oil paintings in Afghanistan
Saturday 19 April 2008
- In photos: 'French Guiana Ariane 5 Carrier Rocket Launches'
- Ariane rocket launches with Vietnamese, Brazilian satellites
- ISS crew safe after hard off-target landing in Kazakhstan
Thursday 17 April 2008
- Researchers: UN panel should be created to safeguard ecosystems
- Support for global anti-whaling campaign extends to Ireland
- Scientists confirm sighting of rare Vietnam turtle
Wednesday 16 April 2008
- Bush sets goal to halt emissions by 2025 (Roundup)
- Scientists: No spot in the Mediterranean safe from tsunamis
- Swedish researchers discover world's oldest living tree
- Bush warms to climate change action
- Don't buy a house too close to the beach, experts warn
Tuesday 15 April 2008
- World's mountains will not remain water towers forever
- Major California quake said certain by 2037
Monday 14 April 2008
- OBITUARY: Wheeler, who gave 'black holes' their name, dead at 96
- Firefighting beetle robots may help humans fight forest fires
- Hitchcock was right: Birds cooperate in task-solving, experts claim
Saturday 12 April 2008
- In photos: 'Germany Rhine Space Shuttle Buran'
- Russian space shuttle inches towards new German home
- Russia plans to end space tourism from 2010
Friday 11 April 2008
- Commercial salmon fishing banned off western US
- 10 Japanese cities to be made ecological model cities
- Germany allows researchers to use newer stem cells
Thursday 10 April 2008
- Soyuz craft carrying South Korea's first astronaut docks at ISS
- UN climate change body to prepare new assessment report
- Cuckoos arrive too late to smuggle their eggs into host nests
- Archaeologists speed up pace of Parthenon restoration
- Scientists discover lungless frog that breathes through skin
- Cambodians urged to stop eating frogs to save rice crop
Wednesday 09 April 2008
- Thousands of swallows die in South Africa on eve of migration
- Nobel Peace Prize-winning climate change body meets in Budapest
Tuesday 08 April 2008
- In photos: 'Russian Space Shuttle Buran Transported'
- In photos: 'Soyuz rocket launch at Baikonur'
- Soyuz spacecraft launches for Space Station
Monday 07 April 2008
- Russian space shuttle glides up the Rhine
- Artificial human sperm could make men redundant, German experts say
- Malaysian wildlife officials save wok-bound monitor lizards
Sunday 06 April 2008
- In photos: 'Switzerland CERN Open Day'
Saturday 05 April 2008
- Big Bang experiment invites public in
Friday 04 April 2008
- Environmental organizations want EU to stop biofuel targets
- Bangkok climate talks set programme for Bali Action plan
- Bangkok climate change talks bog down on work schedule
Thursday 03 April 2008
- In photos: 'Spain Plane Powered by Hydrogen Battery'
- In photos: 'Jules Verne ATV'
- New European 'space truck' arrives at space station
- Ancient Minoan civilisation built by Anatolians, study finds
Wednesday 02 April 2008
- Axe buildings to cool overheated European cities, expert says
- In photos: 'Netherlands Russian spaceshuttle Buran'
- Human-animal hybrid embryo breakthrough in Britain stirs debate
- Bangkok climate change talks to produce more talks
Tuesday 01 April 2008
- Next shuttle launch Discovery delayed to May 31
- Bangkok climate change talks get off to good start, UN claims
- British archeologists in new attempt to unravel Stonehenge secret
- World's largest tidal turbine to be installed in Northern Ireland
Monday 31 March 2008
- Al Gore launches massive ad campaign on climate crisis
- In photos: 'Britain Temple Knights'
- In photos: 'India Leopard Cubs'
- Wily red foxes coming back from extinction in Europe
- Complex climate change talks convene in Bangkok
Sunday 30 March 2008
- In photos: 'Canada Seal Hunt'
- World's biggest collection of dead butterflies moves home
- Australia basks in Earth Hour's afterglow
Saturday 29 March 2008
- In photos: 'Asia-Pacific Earth Hour'
Friday 28 March 2008
- EU allows imports of genetically-modified maize
- Scientists warn Greece's climate could match Egypt's in 60 years
- Spanish discovery sheds light on early humans in Europe
Thursday 27 March 2008
- Endeavour shuttle roars back to Earth (Roundup)
- French and US mathematicians share Abel Prize for mathematics
- In photos: 'Shuttle Endeavour Landing'
- Endeavour Shuttle returns safely to Earth
Wednesday 26 March 2008
- Spaniards discover remains of oldest Western European hominid
- EU considers action on 'inhumane' Canadian seal killings
- Scientists blame global warming for Antarctica ice shelf collapse
Tuesday 25 March 2008
- Space shuttle Endeavour undocks from International Space Station
Sunday 23 March 2008
- In photos: 'USA Hawai Volcanic Activity'
- Endeavour's final spacewalk ends: next stop, Earth
Friday 21 March 2008
- Shuttle astronauts complete fourth spacewalk of Endeavour mission
- Astronauts begin fourth spacewalk of Endeavour mission
Thursday 20 March 2008
- Undergound ocean may exist on Saturn moon, NASA says
Wednesday 19 March 2008
- Hubble discovers methane-gas supply on exo-planet
- South Korea's first woman astronaut approved for flight
Tuesday 18 March 2008
- NASA: Long-term sea ice shrinks in Arctic
- German archeologists unearth ancient temple in Yemen
- In photos: 'Space Shuttle Endeavour & ISS March 17'
- Astronauts begin third spacewalk ahead of time
Monday 17 March 2008
- Japan, Peru join hands in fight against climate change
- Birds take 'power naps' to keep their senses alert all day
Sunday 16 March 2008
- Climate-change meeting ends without agreement on emissions
- Shuttle astronauts complete second spacewalk work
Saturday 15 March 2008
- 'Collective action' needed to fight against climate change
- Dextre robot 'lives' as its power is restored in ISS
- Major greenhouse gas emitters discussing post-Kyoto protocol
- Canberra kangaroo cull draws human shields
Friday 14 March 2008
- Market demand to determine Icelandic commercial whaling quota
- In photos: 'Indonesia Orangutans Born'
- Installation of Japan's Kibo completed
- Major greenhouse gas emitters to discuss post-Kyoto protocol
Thursday 13 March 2008
- In photos: 'Shuttle Endeavour Docks'
- Shuttle Endeavour makes picture-perfect docking at space station
- Skull find reveals ancient surgery nearly 1,800 years ago in Greece
Wednesday 12 March 2008
- Dolphin saves two stranded whales, guides them out to sea
- Shuttle crew complete inspection of Endeavour's heat shield
Tuesday 11 March 2008
- In photos: 'Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off'
- Endeavour heads for International Space Station
- Going green to the grave in Australia
Monday 10 March 2008
- In photos: 'Shuttle Endeavour Launch Preparations'
- In photos: 'Italy Archaeology - House of Augustus on the Palatine Hill'
- WWF says lack of ice causing mass death of Baltic seal pups
- Glaciers atop Great Lakes mountains shrinking rapidly
- Endeavour heads to space station with Japanese, Canadian additions
- First South Korean in space to be woman after late personnel change
Sunday 09 March 2008
- In photos: 'French Guiana Ariane Launch'
- New European 'space truck' launched into orbit
Saturday 08 March 2008
- Japan paid Solomons for whaling support
Friday 07 March 2008
- Cassini spacecraft finds evidence of rings around Saturn moon
- Anti-whaling protesters claim they were shot at
Thursday 06 March 2008
- New 'space truck' hailed as precursor to Mars mission
- Netherlands' 'ugliest' city home to huge solar power venture
- Grand Canyon flushed with millions of litres of water
- Australia's fish whisperer dupes tuna into duplicating
Wednesday 05 March 2008
- Seeking cleaner future, world turns to renewable energy
- OECD report calls for early action on climate change
Tuesday 04 March 2008
- US biologist Gretchen Daily wins Norwegian environment prize
- Mexico City sinking by the day
Monday 03 March 2008
- Solar-powered treatment plants promise water for world's poorest
- Tourists' viruses latest threat to Africa's endangered apes
- Australian ecologist Val Plumwood dies at 67
Sunday 02 March 2008
- Oil flows into Ecuador swamp after mud slide in Amazon region
Saturday 01 March 2008
- PREVIEW: EU ministers to fire first salvoes on climate proposals
Friday 29 February 2008
- British experts recreate face of German composer Bach 250 years on
- In photos: 'Switzerland - CERN ATLAS Experiment'
- World Wide Fund for Nature: Austria's brown bears vanishing
Wednesday 27 February 2008
- Researcher: Viking era fashions were colourful and revealing
Tuesday 26 February 2008
- In photos: 'Norway Seed Vault Inaugurated'
- Secure seed bank opened in Arctic region off Norway
- Australia to build world's biggest solar power plant
- McDonald's Germany changes lids to save hedgehogs
Monday 25 February 2008
- Deadly mushrooms, cute lizards, in full Internet form Tuesday
- Food for thought: fish can think
- Electricity generated by body heat could power tomorrow's phones
- Scientists discover ruins in Peru dating 5,500 years
- South Africa gives go-ahead for elephant culling as 'last resort'
- Hungry bears threaten people in Slovakia
Sunday 24 February 2008
- In photos: 'USA Shuttle Endeavour Crew'
- PREVIEW: Secure seed bank to open in Arctic region off Norway
Friday 22 February 2008
- Climate change threatens world's fish stocks, UN group finds
- Holding a balloon on an Arctic ice floe
- Greenhouse report makes Australia sweat
Thursday 21 February 2008
- US confident satellite's fuel tank was destroyed, video (Roundup)
- US confident satellite's gas tank was destroyed
- US missile hits failed satellite over Pacific
- US military stands to gain by destroying satellite
- Australia urged to make deep cuts to greenhouse gases
Wednesday 20 February 2008
- BACKGROUND: Components involved in shooting down satellite
- US opens window for shooting down satellite
- Mexico City sets up popular observatory for lunar eclipse
- Atlantis shuttle back home after Columbus success
- In photos: 'Space Shuttle Atlantis Lands'
- Milky Way twice as thick as thought
Tuesday 19 February 2008
- Atlantis prepares for return to Earth
Monday 18 February 2008
- Brainstorming carbon: Davy Jones' locker
- Atlantis undocks from ISS for homeward trip
Sunday 17 February 2008
- Lab on space station being activated faster than planned
Friday 15 February 2008
- Astronauts install experiments, observer, on Columbus lab
- US will clean up any debris from satellite shoot-down
Thursday 14 February 2008
- US to shoot down defective spy satellite
Wednesday 13 February 2008
- German astronaut starts spacewalk after recovering from illness
Tuesday 12 February 2008
- Astronauts take first look around Columbus lab on ISS
Monday 11 February 2008
- After four-year wait, Europe's Columbus docks at station (Roundup)
- New study confirms skin cells can transform into stem cells
- Astronauts start moving Columbus onto space station
- In photos: 'Astronauts prepare for removal of ESA's Columbus laboratory'
- Astronauts begin spacewalk, lay groundwork for Columbus attachment
- New York mayor supports carbon emissions tax, reduces hardwood use
- Archaeologists unearth 2,500-year-old city in eastern India
- Scientists develop human skin from hair-root cells
- German astronomers discover 'giant baby' planet in deep space
Sunday 10 February 2008
- German astronaut declared fit again, but spacewalk delayed
Saturday 09 February 2008
- In photos: 'Space Shuttle Atlantis ISS Docking'
- Atlantis docks with ISS
Friday 08 February 2008
- In photos: 'Volcanic Eruptions in Ecuador and Chile'
- In photos: 'USA Shuttle Atlantis - Launch'
Thursday 07 February 2008
- Atlantis roars into space after two-month delay
- In photos: 'USA Shuttle Atlantis - Launch Preparations'
- Weather a concern as Atlantis countdown continues (Roundup)
Wednesday 06 February 2008
- Weather a concern as Atlantis countdown continues
- Toy claimed as world's first hydrogen-powered car
Tuesday 05 February 2008
- EU calls for space-age green database
- NASA beams up with the Beatles in a song to outer space
Wednesday 30 January 2008
- ISS spacewalk to replace the motor of one of its solar wings
Monday 28 January 2008
- German scientists readying Indian Ocean tsunami warning system
Friday 25 January 2008
- Synthetic ice-skating floor gains international popularity
Wednesday 23 January 2008
- NASA study finds case of impaired astronaut
Tuesday 22 January 2008
- Remains of Slavic temple slip into sea in Germany
Friday 18 January 2008
- Scientists warn western Greece could be under water by 2100
- Mission to Mercury honours Italian space scientist
- Scientists create clones from adult cells
Thursday 17 January 2008
- Two Russians and an American win 2008 Crafoord science prize
Monday 14 January 2008
- Messenger probe reaches Mercury after three-year journey
- German scientists use solar power to produce drinking water
Sunday 13 January 2008
- Berlin denies Galileo satnav costs will skyrocket
Saturday 12 January 2008
- Cost of Galileo satnav to skyrocket, German mag says
- Space Shuttle Atlantis launch set for February 7
Thursday 10 January 2008
- NASA 'effectively ruling out' asteroid collision with Mars
Wednesday 09 January 2008
- Singapore mulling plans to create animals with human DNA
Tuesday 08 January 2008
- Hubble's overhaul will improve its eyesight 90-fold
- First Irish expedition expected to reach South Pole
- Ancient volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius discovered in Greece
Sunday 06 January 2008
- Czech archeologists find intact Egyptian tomb chamber
Friday 04 January 2008
- Atlantis launch still uncertain - earliest January 24
Wednesday 02 January 2008
- Scientists discover new planet outside solar system
Monday 31 December 2007
- Scientists discover stubbornness gene
Wednesday 26 December 2007
- Russian space freighter reaches space station with Xmas gifts
Tuesday 25 December 2007
- Science advocate group calls for US candidate debate
Monday 24 December 2007
- 'Caesar's Super Glue' still sticking around - 2,000 years later
Saturday 22 December 2007
- Astronomers watching as asteroid crosses Mars' path
- Mars mission delayed two years on conflict of interest
- Ariane launches first pan-African satellite
Wednesday 19 December 2007
- DNA vibrations are 'music' to the ears of US, Italian scientists
Tuesday 18 December 2007
- Astronauts inspect defect on space station solar panel
Friday 14 December 2007
- Space Shuttle Atlantis launch set for January 10
Wednesday 12 December 2007
- Thousands of prehistoric bear bones discovered in northern Greece
Tuesday 11 December 2007
- German museum admits Terracotta Army may be fake
- Co-creator of Dolly taking up new post in London next year
- Remember the moon? NASA does, with 2020 vision
Sunday 09 December 2007
- Shuttle launch postponed until January
- Shuttle to be fueled Sunday; launch still in question
- Roman barge under Cologne to reveal shipping history
Saturday 08 December 2007
- Shuttle launch delayed until at least Sunday
Thursday 06 December 2007
- US shuttle launch delayed by fuel sensors details of problem (Roundup)
- Intel founder gives 200 million dollars for super-telescope
- Technical problems delay US shuttle launch at least a day
- US shuttle poised for launch Thursday
Tuesday 04 December 2007
- New era set to begin with European space lab Columbus
Saturday 01 December 2007
- Solar start-up aims to clean up on energy
Friday 30 November 2007
- EU ministers resolve latest split over Galileo project
Thursday 29 November 2007
- Venus has lightning, greenhouse effect, probe finds
Tuesday 27 November 2007
- Where Caesars travelled - Roman roadmap displayed in Vienna
Monday 26 November 2007
- Chinese premier lauds first photos from lunar probe
Saturday 24 November 2007
- Astronauts complete spacewalk to connect Harmony module
Friday 23 November 2007
- EU says Galileo satellite-navigation system might be scrapped
Thursday 22 November 2007
- German research centre in Stuttgart gains Italian unit
Tuesday 20 November 2007
- Astronauts complete spacewalk focused on Harmony module
- Researchers create embryonic stem cells from adult skin cells
- Astronauts begin rearranging space station's 'porch'
Monday 19 November 2007
- New robot is taught to 'be gentle' with humans
Saturday 17 November 2007
- Germany sends new research base to Antarctica
Thursday 15 November 2007
- Arianespace sets new satellite payload record
Tuesday 13 November 2007
- EU scientists earn less than their Indian colleagues, study finds
- Ariane 5 rocket launch postponed again
Monday 12 November 2007
- Latest space station manoeuvre prepares for Harmony's move
- Germany to digitize 19th-century sailing-ship weather logs
Friday 09 November 2007
- Station astronauts take first steps to move Italy's Harmony
- Station astronauts to prepare for Harmony's installation
Wednesday 07 November 2007
- Shuttle Discovery lands in Florida
- New accelerator project launched: to research Big Bang
- German official: 'Let's go to the moon'
Tuesday 06 November 2007
- New particle accelerator to research the Big Bang
- NASA predicts good conditions for planned Discovery landing
Monday 05 November 2007
- Shuttle Discovery undocks from ISS, readies for home journey available
- Chinese probe enters lunar orbit
Sunday 04 November 2007
- In Photos: King Tut revealed
- King Tut's face revealed to world for first time
Saturday 03 November 2007
- Risky spacewalk succeeds in repairing solar array (Roundup)
- Germany home to world's top solar testing lab
- Risky spacewalk planned for astronaut to mend torn solar panel
Thursday 01 November 2007
- Tears in ISS solar array to be repaired on Saturday
Wednesday 31 October 2007
- China lunar satellite begins key manoeuvre on journey to moon
- China to develop heavy-duty carrier rockets for space programme
Tuesday 30 October 2007
- Astronauts install solar truss; tear found
- Astronauts finish complicated solar truss instalment
- Astronauts to focus on solar truss in third spacewalk
Monday 29 October 2007
- Spacewalkers find solar panel problem; heat shield OK
Sunday 28 October 2007
- Astronauts complete second mission spacewalk
Friday 26 October 2007
- Harmony module attached to International Space Station
- Space shuttle Discovery astronauts start first spacewalk
Thursday 25 October 2007
- Chilean scientists find brain region that determines drug addiction
- Women commanders greet in space after Discovery docks
- Dutch streak to victory in Australian solar race
- Discovery docks at space station
- Roman villa discovered in western Austria
- Solar cars streak across Australia's interior
Wednesday 24 October 2007
- Nuclear fusion the holy grail for lunar explorers
- Discovery crew checks heat shield for damage
- China begins moon quest with satellite launch (Roundup)
- China begins moon quest with satellite launch
- Discovery's start boosts European space programme
Tuesday 23 October 2007
- Discovery shuttle enters orbit on way to space station
- Italian astronaut says 'nice to be in space'
Monday 22 October 2007
- Weather threatens Space Shuttle Discovery launch
- Despite risks, Discovery to launch Tuesday
Sunday 21 October 2007
- First remains from original Jewish temple found at holy site
- Soyuz craft brings cosmonauts home after 15th ISS mission
Thursday 18 October 2007
- Scientists deliver tsunami warning software for Indonesia
- Diary of Israeli astronaut dead in shuttle disaster being restored
Wednesday 17 October 2007
- Discovery launch given go-ahead despite heat shield worries
Tuesday 16 October 2007
- Huge fossil of new dinosaur species discovered in Argentina
- China to launch its moon probe next week
Friday 12 October 2007
- IPCC has released most dire warnings this year
- Rocket carrying Malaysia's first astronaut docks at ISS
Wednesday 10 October 2007
- Malaysia's first astronaut to blast into space
- Ertl wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Profile: Nobel prize the perfect birthday present for Ertl
Tuesday 09 October 2007
- Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg win Physics prize (Roundup)
- Peter Gruenberg: likes classical music and sport
- Albert Fert prefers eccentric artists - and spintronics
- Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg win Physics prize
Monday 08 October 2007
- Profile: Geneticist Oliver Smithies flying high on Nobel announcement
- Profile: Mario Capecchi from street child to Nobel Prize winner
- Syrian archaeologists uncover 11th-century BC painting
- Trio from Britain and US win Nobel Prize for Medicine
Friday 05 October 2007
- Underwater archaeologists find mediaeval artefacts in German lake
Tuesday 02 October 2007
- Vietnam's first satellite scheduled for launch in March 2008
Monday 01 October 2007
- Transparent frog to help advance scientific research
- Russia wants to revive space dominance of Sputnik era
Thursday 27 September 2007
- India's ISRO to collaborate in space projects with other countries
- Dawn begins long journey to asteroid belt
Tuesday 25 September 2007
- NASA aims to put man on Mars by 2037 (Roundup)
- NASA aims to put man on Mars by 2037
Monday 24 September 2007
- International astronautical meet begins in India
- New discovery in Tutankhamun's tomb
Friday 21 September 2007
- Moscow opens polar research station in bid to secure Arctic claims
Thursday 20 September 2007
- New monuments discovered near Luxor temple
Wednesday 19 September 2007
- Some 40 pre-Inca mummies found in Kuelap fortress in Peru
Tuesday 18 September 2007
- Repair of hydraulic seal threatens Space Shuttle Discovery launch
Saturday 15 September 2007
- Five spacewalks, mock repairs planned for Discovery mission
Friday 14 September 2007
- Google sponsors 30-million-dollar prize for moon shot
Friday 07 September 2007
- EU issues storm warning as worldwide climate disasters grow
Thursday 06 September 2007
- Archaeologists find remains of sky-disc people in Germany
Wednesday 05 September 2007
- British watchdog allows creation of human-animal embryos (Roundup)
- Computer expert picked as South Korea's first astronaut
Thursday 30 August 2007
- NASA found no evidence of drunken astronauts on flights
Thursday 23 August 2007
- Ancient diamonds found in Australia give clues to Earth's youth
Tuesday 21 August 2007
- Endeavour returns home
- Endeavour manoeuvring for re-entry
- Endeavour shuttle set for early landing
Monday 20 August 2007
- 5,000-year-old chewing gum discovered by archaeology student
- Dust to dust - outer space makes dust 'come alive,' experts say
Sunday 19 August 2007
- Endeavour undocks to prepare for early landing
- Endeavour to land early amid looming Gulf hurricane
Saturday 18 August 2007
- Shuttle astronauts start fourth and last space walk
- Hurricane may cut short Endeavour mission, NASA says
Friday 17 August 2007
- Astronauts confident in decision not to repair Endeavour
- NASA decides against repairing shuttle tile damage
Thursday 16 August 2007
- Astronauts prepare for possible repair on delayed spacewalk
Wednesday 15 August 2007
- Astronauts end spacewalk early
- Astronauts begin spacewalk to upgrade ISS communications system
- Ariane rocket carrying two satellites launched
Tuesday 14 August 2007
- Teacher turned astronaut leads lesson from space
Monday 13 August 2007
- Endeavour astronauts install new gyroscope on ISS
- NASA adds 3 days, 4th spacewalk to shuttle mission
Sunday 12 August 2007
- Shuttle Endeavour astronauts finish first space walk
Saturday 11 August 2007
- Endeavour shuttle docks with ISS; heat shield damage found
Friday 10 August 2007
- Space Shuttle Endeavour docks with International Space Station
- Teacher reaches to stars, 21 years after Challenger disaster
Thursday 09 August 2007
- Endeavour astronauts inspect shuttle
- Archaeologists discover early Byzantine church in Israeli city
- Shuttle Endeavour blasts off for space station
Wednesday 08 August 2007
- Space shuttle Endeavour prepares for launch