A Struggling Science Experiment
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A little more than three months after California voters approved a measure allocating $3 billion in public funds for stem cell and related research, organizers are struggling with down-to-earth concerns.
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It has the technology to land men on the moon and send probes into the darkest reaches of space. But Nasa&#39;s newest project has more in common with school science lessons than Star Wars.
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Scientists capture a beam of light and make it reappear elsewhere, potentially leading to advances in computing.
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Nov. 30 - So far they&#39;ve done the recipe only on a small scale in an Idaho laboratory. The ingredients are water, electricity and extreme heat.
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A team of US scientists show off a novel device that harvests energy from human movements.
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Take a photo tour of mankind's most ambitious physics experiment ever.
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The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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The first precise measurement of a failed star known as a brown dwarf finds the object is much more massive than theorists expected. The result challenges what astronomers&nbsp;assumed about these strange things, which straddle the mass range between huge planets and normal stars.
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It's "all systems go" for one of the most ambitious physics experiments ever attempted. After more than 40 years of methodical planning and four months of intense troubleshooting, NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft has begun its search for a bizarre prediction of Einstein's relativity.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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Recent research shows that antioxidant vitamins may not be as powerful as once thought.
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An electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge has been developed by US researchers. Shuguang Zhang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and research collaborators
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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The race to create life from scratch is underway. But how close are scientists to making a synthetic organism?
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Has Energy Conversion Devices managed to deliver on its promising potential? I don't think so.