Science - News
Thursday 15 May 2008
- NASA observatory uncovers youngest ever supernova
Wednesday 14 May 2008
- Files on secret UFO sightings released in UK
- Polar bear listed as threatened species by US
- Bullet cartridges found at site of Ned Kelly's last stand
Tuesday 13 May 2008
- Carbon dioxide reaches highest levels in 650,000 years
- Microsoft extends battle with Google into space with launch of virtual telescope
- Mars exploration mission on schedule for landing
Monday 12 May 2008
- US Department of Energy study aims for 20 percent wind energy by 2030
- Study links long term exposure to pollution to leg blood clots
- Space station astronauts confident alien life will be found
Sunday 11 May 2008
- Link between self-control and crime outlined in study
- NASA looks to private sector for assistance in cutting space travel cost
- Famous physicist launches search for Africa's Einsteins
Thursday 08 May 2008
- Researchers urge AIDS rethink in Africa
- NASA set to boost supercomputer capacity
- Earliest known American settlers had beachcomber tradition
Wednesday 07 May 2008
- Scientists unravel unique platypus genome
- European space telescope makes missing matter find
- Historical NASA footage gets high definition makeover for TV
- Researchers discover why food always looks better when you are hungry
Tuesday 06 May 2008
- War on Australian cane toads takes a biological twist
- NASA astronauts arrive at launch pad for rehearsal
- New fat cell research could change obesity treatment
- NASA probe to fly into Sun's corona
Monday 05 May 2008
- Canada to launch asteroid-hunting satellite
- Tropical species at greater risk from global warming
- BAE Systems to develop electronic bugs for military use
- Chinese researchers identify key rice productivity gene
Sunday 04 May 2008
- Research shows how alcohol changes the way our brain reacts
- Outback astronomer records Saturn storm for NASA
- New clean coal technology attracts investment
Friday 02 May 2008
- Company uses biomimicry to harness power of the seas
Thursday 01 May 2008
- Oxygen depleted areas in tropical oceans increase
- Former UN head calls for African green revolution
- Asian vultures extinct within decade, scientists warn
- The eyes have it: dissected colossal squid reveals world's largest peepers
Wednesday 30 April 2008
- Weakening in Gulf Stream will slow global warming; scientists
- Chemical compass gives clue to birds' navigation secrets
Tuesday 29 April 2008
- Scientists make breakthrough in obesity cure
- Scientists find fourteen new species in Brazil
- World's poorest children are most vulnerable to climate change; UNICEF
- India launches record number of satellites into space
Monday 28 April 2008
- Scientists close to spinning artificial spider silk
- Records of Old Bailey trials to be published online
- Earth's magnetic field linked to suicide, depression
Sunday 27 April 2008
- Gene therapy restores partial sight to blind for rare condition
- Long-delayed second Galileo navigation satellite launched
Friday 25 April 2008
- Sulphur particle scheme to reduce global warming will have damaging side effects
Thursday 24 April 2008
- Honda's robot to conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- NASA releases 59 Hubble images of colliding galaxies
- Sex-free fish has scientists stumped
- Book claims biodiversity loss will affect human health
Wednesday 23 April 2008
- US environment scientists report political pressure; survey
- World Food Programme head urges urgent action over spiralling prices
Tuesday 22 April 2008
- Dispute rages over safety of Soyuz spacecraft occupants during re-entry
- Stephen Hawking calls for new era of space conquest
- U.N. commission extends Australian sea rights
- 'Spider crater' photographed by NASA satellite
Monday 21 April 2008
- First cloned sniffer dogs begin their training in South Korea
- New deadly virus discovered by scientists
- Canada rejects sale of space technology to US firm
Sunday 20 April 2008
- Soyuz capsule lands late and off target but crew OK
- Did the Sun once rise in the West?
Friday 18 April 2008
- US provides funding for regenerative medicine project
Thursday 17 April 2008
- American journalist uses Twitter to gain freedom from Egyptian jail
- Rapid drainage of Greenland ice sheet's meltwater clue to accelerating glaciers
- NASA quashes German student’s asteroid correction
- Darwin's first drafts of evolution theory online for first time
- Science fiction into reality? US army develops robot suits for soldiers
Wednesday 16 April 2008
- Carbon Capture hotly debated in Australia
- Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies at 90
- UN report urges reform to avert food crisis
Tuesday 15 April 2008
- Report says sea level rise worse than feared
- US, European Saturn probe Cassini gets two-year extension
- China overtakes US as world's biggest polluter
- Nuclear fission pioneer John A. Wheeler dead at 96
Monday 14 April 2008
- California has 99.7 percent probability of major quake in 30 years; report
- Two Australian states vie to host Virgin space tourism port
- Earthquake ‘Swarm’ peppers Oregon coast
Friday 11 April 2008
- Soyuz spacecraft docks safely at International Space Station
- Stolen military equipment found on eBay, Craiglist
- NASA's Mars probe captures images of planet's moon
Thursday 10 April 2008
- Australian telco begins laying of 9,000 km undersea internet cable
- Stonehenge was 'neolithic Lourdes' say archaeologists
- Look of love or lust? Face gives clue say researchers
Wednesday 09 April 2008
- First Korean astronaut calls for two Koreas to 'share triumph'
- 'God particle' soon to be revealed says physicist
Monday 07 April 2008
- Solar system similar to our own discovered
- Climate change putting koalas diet at risk; researchers
Friday 04 April 2008
- How bees learn to recognise their surroundings
- UN forecasters say global temperatures to decrease in 2008
- Earliest American DNA found in fossilised faeces
- Space ship docking success hailed by controllers
Thursday 03 April 2008
- Jules Verne space ship gets go ahead for docking with ISS
- Scientists identify 'addiction' gene
- Solar tsunami caught on video for first time
Wednesday 02 April 2008
- Humans, climate change responsible for Woolly Mammoth's demise
- British team announce country's first human-animal embryos
- British team announce first human-animal embryos
- Scientists find smallest black hole yet discovered
- Australian PM backs radio telescope bid
Tuesday 01 April 2008
- Researchers hold breath for Tasmanian Devil tumour cure
- Jules Verne completes rehearsal ahead of Space Station docking
- Archaeologists uncover Americas' oldest necklace
Monday 31 March 2008
- Cellphones to become mobile doctors
- Space junk found in Aussie outback
- Communication key to healthy heart; researchers
- Injunction sought against Large Hadron Collider
- Company offers Moon as graveyard
- Unmanned space ship performs first practice manoeuvres successfully
Friday 28 March 2008
- US researchers announce development of flexible microchips
- NASA Cassini spacecraft detects organic molecules on Saturn moon
- Faint Crusaders' DNA uncovered in Middle East
- Historians bring to life first ever recording of human voice
Thursday 27 March 2008
- Shock at NASA chief's resignation
- Fossil discovery uncovers Europe's oldest humans
- Space shuttle lands safely in Florida
- Researchers find evidence of the UK's biggest ever meteorite impact
Wednesday 26 March 2008
- Telescopes on the Moon?
- Massive Antarctic ice shelf on verge of melting
- South Asia warned of impending climate change crisis
- Aussie fauna highly susceptible to climate change
- Aussie fauna highly sensitive to climate change: report
Tuesday 25 March 2008
- Blood cell development offers hope in fight against multiple sclerosis
- Babies' brains benefit from mothers' fish-rich diet say researchers
- Endeavour undocks from space station, begins journey home
- NASA denies budget cut will deactivate Mars Rover
Monday 24 March 2008
- Therapeutic cloning offers hope for Parkinson's disease cure
- Fossil discovery unlocks evidence of human relatives walking on two feet
- Endeavour astronauts prepare for return trip
Friday 21 March 2008
- Sulphur-laden skies from massive eruptions may have ended dinosaurs
- Weed-eating fish key to coral reef survival say experts
- Underground ocean may be beneath Saturn moon's crust
Thursday 20 March 2008
- Mysterious Tas devils' tumour not due to chemicals
- Motherhood improves brain function say experts
- Methane detected for first time outside our solar system
Wednesday 19 March 2008
- Space station's robot assembled and ready for duty
- Sci-fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90
Tuesday 18 March 2008
- Early 20th century electric car set to return for limited sales
- Pilot of oil spill ship charged with criminal negligence
- Obesity disrupts entire gene networks say experts
- Scientists use secret of geckos' agility to enhance wall-climbing robots
Monday 17 March 2008
- Native Americans can trace ancestry back to six founding mothers, say experts
- Glaciers in retreat at record rate
- Space station, Endeavour crews continue to assemble components
- Wine damages brain more than beer: researchers
Friday 14 March 2008
- Tsunami early warning buoy system completed
- Astronauts begin first of five spacewalks
- Radar picks up evidence of water ice on Mars
- Scientists uncover the brain's risk assessment sector
Thursday 13 March 2008
- EPA tightens smog protection in US
- Cassini passes over Saturn's geyser moon
- Space shuttle closes in on International Space Station
Wednesday 12 March 2008
- Further small-statured skeletons finds in Micronesia reopens separate species debate
- How a misbehaving meteorite changed the rules
- NASA directs Cassini space craft to fly within 50 km of Saturn moon
- Endeavour team prepares to check shuttle for possible damage
Tuesday 11 March 2008
- Space shuttle confirmed successful liftoff (1st Update)
- Road workers find 1,000 ancient graves in Thessaloniki
- Culling begins as second outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal detected this year
