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Aurora Borealis: Why the UK?
24/01/2012 - 12:37
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Over the past few days, people across northern parts of the UK have been treated to spectacular views of the Aurora borealis. Scientists predict this incredible phenomenon may well...

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Alcohol makes worms live longer
23/01/2012 - 15:29
Submitted by Kieron Allen

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19,232 new species in latest inventory
19/01/2012 - 17:43
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Proving our planet still conceals many of its secrets, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University yesterday released an inventory of over 19,000 new species...

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Hunt for the world's smallest vertebrate
16/01/2012 - 17:53
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Last week, the science community celebrated the discovery of the...

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Twitter map of Europe
13/01/2012 - 10:46
Submitted by Kieron Allen

The collection of bright dots that make up this map of Europe represent the location of tweets and shared photos by over two million users of the social networking sites Flickr and Twitter.

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Top five UK science events 2012
04/01/2012 - 17:42
Submitted by Kieron Allen
In this month’s Focus, we predicted the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2012. Unfortunately, to be involved with...
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2012: Year of the Moon?
03/01/2012 - 12:35
Submitted by Kieron Allen

NASA saw in the New Year with a successful mission to the moon. Over the weekend the agency’s two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes completed their three-month journey...

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The trillion-frame-per-second camera
20/12/2011 - 17:39
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Get your hands on MIT’s new ultrafast camera and, according to its designers, anything in the universe can be viewed in slow motion, even the movement of photons through space.

It...

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Cambridge University digitise rare Newton manuscripts
12/12/2011 - 16:13
Submitted by Kieron Allen

After spending hundreds of years hidden from view, over 4,000 pages of Isaac Newton’s personal notebooks and manuscripts have been unleashed into the public domain as part of an ambitious...

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The bacteria farming yeti crab
05/12/2011 - 16:15
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Snow white and covered in hair, the aptly named yeti crab, is the first crustacean ever discovered that actually grows it’s own food.

This bizarre creature doesn’t follow...

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Dopamine: Is this how Toxoplasma gondii controls your brain?
30/11/2011 - 12:25
Submitted by Kieron Allen

It’s estimated that 15 percent of people in the UK are infected with Toxoplasma Gondii (Toxo), a bizarre mind-altering parasite capable of driving rodents to suicide. Now scientists have...

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Mars: Now's a good time to go
23/11/2011 - 17:16
Submitted by Kieron Allen

Fifty years ago the first “moonwalkers” were heralded as heroes. But in an age of space tourism the Moon is more holiday destination that unfathomable fantasy. Nowadays there are...

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