- BBC Science/Nature
- 09/1/5 03:09
Cancer cells are able to escape death by reversing a process which triggers suicide in normal cells, scientists have shown.
Cancer cells are able to escape death by reversing a process which triggers suicide in normal cells, scientists have shown.
Australian scientists say they want to build a fence on Tasmania to prevent the spread of a cancer that could wipe out the Tasmanian Devil.
SUNDAY 4. JANUARY 2009
The Arabic genius working 700 years before Newton
Researchers say they can harness the power of gold nanoparticles to devise a better way of delivering drugs to patients.
SATURDAY 3. JANUARY 2009
The US space agency's (Nasa) Mars rovers are celebrating a remarkable five years on the Red Planet.
World's newest tall building set to reveal secrets
FRIDAY 2. JANUARY 2009
BBC joins police raid on Brazil's wildlife traffickers
The controversial idea that space impacts may have wiped out woolly mammoths and early human settlers in North America receives new impetus.
Growth of corals in the Great Barrier Reef has slowed to the most sluggish rate in 400 years, researchers say.
Research into creating tiny structures on light sensors could mean digital cameras take better pictures.
The scientist in charge of the Large Hadron Collider still hopes the experiment can work after the machine's £14m repair.
A look around a US gym powered by exercise
Learning what it takes to become a zoo keeper
Sir Peter Cook recalls 1960s avant garde visions
Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite, say researchers.
THURSDAY 1. JANUARY 2009
A special storage machine could be better than ice for keeping donor kidneys fresh for transplantation, say scientists.
WEDNESDAY 31. DECEMBER 2008
Chinese researchers have unearthed what they believe is the largest collection of dinosaur bones ever found.
BBC Scotland education correspondent Seonag Mackinnon looks back at the major issues of 2008.
The role of plants has never been so vital, says the head of Kew Gardens, as the site turns 250 years old.
Economist Lord Stern says he is optimistic that a global deal on reducing carbon dioxide emissions will be struck under Barak Obama.
A "leap second" will be added onto official clocks at midnight to account for the Earth's slowing spin on its axis.
How a "leap second" will correct the world's clocks
A New Zealand passenger plane successfully completes a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.
Prof Martin Taylor, vice president of the Royal Society, heads the list of scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.
TUESDAY 30. DECEMBER 2008
Columbia's crew knew they had no control of the doomed orbiter, says a report by Nasa into the 2003 disaster.