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02/09/2010 01:04 AM
Smartphone keys get quantum trick
A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.

02/08/2010 05:58 PM
Green pounds
Eco-towns earmarked for government cash

02/08/2010 05:16 PM
Enceladus water story reinforced
The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

02/08/2010 01:23 PM
First film of giant deep-sea fish
Scientists film the giant serpent-like oarfish in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, as well as the rare manefish.

02/08/2010 09:17 AM
Shuttle makes final night flight
The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

02/08/2010 02:11 AM
Fur seal colony leaves Galapagos
A group of fur seals have moved from the Galapagos Islands to the warming waters of northern Peru, experts say.

02/08/2010 01:36 AM
Robo-soldiers
Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer?

02/08/2010 12:23 AM
Genes reveal 'biological ageing'
Scientists say they have pinpointed gene variants that might show how fast people's bodies are ageing.

02/07/2010 09:03 PM
Spaceman
America ponders the options for a big rocket

02/07/2010 12:02 PM
Climate scepticism 'on the rise'
The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests.

02/06/2010 03:29 PM
Dinosaur footprint haul in China
Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing in the same direction.

02/06/2010 07:54 AM
In pictures
The troubles faced by the world's largest amphibian

02/05/2010 05:49 PM
Birds that use their feathers like cats use their whiskers
Birds may use their feathers for touch - to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers, scientists find.

02/05/2010 02:47 PM
Insects migrate in wind highways
Migrating insects use highways in the sky to speed their journey, according to a study published in Science magazine.

02/05/2010 12:47 PM
Dynamic Pluto revealed in images
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes.

02/05/2010 12:08 PM
Embattled climate chief supported
India gives its full support to embattled climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri, under attack over recent scientific errors.

02/05/2010 11:15 AM
Computing ace
The computer that laid the foundations of the internet

02/05/2010 09:56 AM
Shackleton's whisky dug from South Pole ice
Five crates of Scotch whisky and brandy belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered from the ice after a century.

02/05/2010 08:31 AM
Russia 'dumped waste in Baltic'
The Russian military dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, Swedish media reports say.

02/04/2010 06:28 PM
Ancient Indian language dies out
The last speaker of the Bo language in India's Andaman Islands dies at the age of about 85, a leading linguist says.

02/04/2010 04:20 PM
How spider webs capture water
A new study reveals the structural secrets that allow spider webs to capture water droplets from the air.

02/04/2010 03:50 PM
Sea drifters
Colourful images of plankton in the world's oceans

02/04/2010 12:33 PM
Extraordinary owl preys on sloth
The first evidence of a sloth that has been killed by a owl.

02/03/2010 10:00 PM
Scan unlocks vegetative patients
Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.

02/03/2010 08:53 PM
Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth
Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System.

02/03/2010 06:39 PM
Saturn mission 'extended again'
The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn once again.

02/03/2010 05:47 PM
France backs ban on tuna exports
France backs calls for a ban on the global trade in bluefin tuna, the numbers of which have dwindled through overfishing.

02/03/2010 10:46 AM
Wolverine numbers 'melting away'
A significant decline in predatory wolverines across North America is linked to melting snowpacks, say researchers.

02/02/2010 04:36 PM
Copenhagen - the Munich of our times?
The Copenhagen Climate Accord was a "failure of historic proportions" and hardly worth the paper it's printed on.

01/26/2010 12:14 PM
We cannot buy Earth more time
Global economic growth, in its current form, cannot continue if nations are serious about curbing climate change.

12/09/2009 04:04 PM
Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment