The Appliance of Science
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The fifth Newcastle Science Festival includes workshops, lectures, family activities and debates. Ian Simmons, science communications director at the Centre for Life, offers an introduction. More details on the following pages.
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.
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Shirley O. Corriher, who has found a niche dispensing scientific wisdom about what really happens during cooking, now turns to baking.
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Science & environment: We are constantly told to switch the TV off standby, recycle and boil less water - but does this distract us from the bigger picture?
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Science & environment: Italian scientist takes vital step towards building a living organism from scratch.
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Miles away from humans in the middle of squirrel country sits a piece of equipment that may lead scientists to the origins of the universe.
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MIT scientists perfect the use of light beams as a tweezer-like tool for manipulating microscopic objects.
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Scientists have begun designing a new generation of weapons meant to be sturdier and more reliable.
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University of California scientists use a Google widget to improve automatic image cataloging in large collections like the Library of Congress. It'll add "common sense" to computers' ability to recognize objects in photographs, by adding a semantic context to object recognition.
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Some physicists are creating a revolution in the arcane world of ultra-precise clocks. And among them is a researcher who has trouble getting anywhere on time.
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A synchrotron acts like a gigantic microscope that generates intense beams of brilliant light to view the microstructure of materials.
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By Anonymous  Colgate-Palmolive puts appliance through rigorous testing to prove usefulness to its global network.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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(Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and  technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any  opinions in the column are his alone.)
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.