Quantum dots tiny pieces of semiconductor turn out to be extremely good at making deliveries inside living cells (full text available to subscribers) (...)
The UK government has big plans for wind farms off its coast, but similarly bold plans for solar power in the US are put on hold (...)
Criminy, I almost forgot: today, July 4th, at roughly 08:00 UT, the Earth was at aphelion. Uh, what? I hear you ask. OK, brief astrolesson for ya, then back to the grill!
Discrete chunks rather than jets of plasma may be behind some of the universe's most powerful explosions (full text available to subscribers) (...)
A new star, likely the brightest supernova in recorded human history, lit up planet Earth's sky in the year 1006 AD. The expanding debris cloud from the stellar explosion, found in the southerly (...)
As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered. (...)
Police in Wales were called to investigate a mysterious flying saucer, only to discover it was the moon.
Visitors to the National Mall get an up close and personal view of the space shuttle's main engine thanks to the display provided by the Stennis Space Center.
Scientists from Hungary, Germany and the U.K. have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana (THC), but these play an important (...)
Peter Higgs, a 79-year-old might be a shoo-in for a Nobel prize for the fundamental particle he proposed in 1964 - known as the Higgs boson or, more colourfully, the God Particle - but he is a re(...)