Science

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