We visit a science fiction exhibition at The British Library, while astronomer and author Stuart Clarke joins us in the studio to discuss a different kind of science fiction: his novel The Sky's Dark Labyrinth, which explores the early days of astronomy through the lives of Johannes Kepler and Galileo.We also have our usual dose of the week's news stories including the discovery of some very...

The bacteria behind stomach ulcers may be linked to Parkinson's disease, researchers say.

This stunning Fijian mystery bird's plumage was the accepted currency for an entire maritime trading network Collared lory, Vini solitarius (formerly, Phigys solitarius; protonym, Psittacus solitarius), also known as the Fiji lory, ruffed lory, solitary lory, or (my favourite) as the Kula, photographed whilst feeding on flowering eucalyptus high in the Nadarivatu Highlands at Viti Levu, Republic...

A huge volcanic eruption in Iceland which has spewed ash up to 19km (12 miles) into the sky, and closed the airspace, could reach the UK later this week.

AP - A tornado swept through a small eastern Kansas town, killing one person and destroying at least 20 homes, as severe thunderstorms pelted the region with hail that some residents described as the size of baseballs, authorities said...

Over the next five days, the African nation will vaccinate 3.6 million children in a bid to reduce measles deaths by 98 percent.

Our perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.

Knowledge of seismic risk is badly skewed in favour of earthquakes that occur on plate boundaries, such as the March 11 temblor that hit northeast Japan, rather than those that strike deep inland, a pair of scientists said on Sunday.

Fifty years after the first manned space flight, almost 700 humans from nearly 40 countries have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" and orbited our planet.

Researchers have new insights into the means by which bone cells produce new bone in response to mechanical stresses, such as exercise. New findings lay a path for developing new strategies for treating diseases characterized by low bone density, such as osteoporosis in adults and osteogenesis imperfecta in...

A new computer model of the Gulf of Mexico in the period after the oil spill provides insights into how underwater currents may have primed marine microorganisms to degrade the oil.

Researchers have identified a new protein involved in the development of drug resistance in breast cancer which could be a target for new treatments.

A new study by rheumatologists has shown that a powerful pro-inflammatory protein, tumor necrosis factor, can also suppress aspects of inflammation. The researchers say the identification of the mechanism of how this occurs could potentially lead to new treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid...

Scientists have, for the first time, devised a way to measure the forces that guide how cells migrate during collective cellular migration. Their surprising conclusion is that the cells fight it out, each pushing and pulling on its neighbors in a chaotic dance, yet together moving cooperatively toward their intended...

AFP - About 20,000 people took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in north Switzerland on Sunday ahead of a government decision on the future of atomic energy in the...

The aldosterone antagonist eplerenone significantly reduced the development of new onset atrial fibrillation and flutter in patients with class 2 heart failure, concludes a sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF trial.

Combining the cutting-edge technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria with social networking analysis, public health officials can get a more detailed picture of disease outbreaks that will better help track and stop them, say researchers say.

Patients with dyssynchronous yet viable ventricles are most likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with defibrillation, concludes the latest analysis of the MADIT CRT trial.

Stem cell researchers have been able to direct embryonic and induced human stem cells to become astrocytes in the lab dish.

Researchers have developed an automated microfluidic cell culture platform to monitor the growth, survival and responses of hundreds of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at the single cell level.

Scientists find that in an unfelt, weeks-long seismic phenomenon called episodic tremor and slip, the tremor can suddenly reverse direction and travel back through areas of the fault that it had ruptured in preceding days.

New research will help to define the precise populations of patients with chronic heart failure in whom telemedical management delivers benefits.