The city of Portland in Oregon, has launched a system that generates electricity when drinking water flows through th...

Scientists in the US have invented a new material that discourages the colonisation of life-threatening bacteria on m...

Materials found in the shells of prawns and other crustaceans may become a cheap and plentiful components of electric...

Similar despite different appearance and governance.

The skyscraper-filled, overpopulated, electricity-guzzling cities of our modern era, while noticeably different in ap...

Neanderthals may have lived longer in Asia than thought.

Two independent teams of researchers investigating why East Asian people have more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans hav...

Polar vortex is pushing freezing cold air to America.

For a second year in a row, North America has shivered through a brutally cold winter – this year with the Northeast ...

There's a cool new space site, spaceprob.es, cataloguing all the active space probes we have sent across the Solar Sy...

Drug so potent it might work as a vaccine.

The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) claims to have found an anti-HIV drug so potent it might work as a vaccine. ...

How do they do it?

A Week in Science, from RiAus, this week looks at bird migrations – feats of stamina that are hard to believe. The re...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released imagery of G299, the leftovers of a supernova of  Type Ia.  Astronomers...

Chinese researchers say they can speed up skin wound healing.

Chinese researchers say they can speed up skin wound healing on mice using fish protein in the form of collagen obtai...

Supply of science PhD graduates far outstrips available positions.

A study by MIT researchers makes bleak reading for young scientists – at least if they want a job in a university. It...