Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of the Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft after the first model failed to escape Earth orbit and crashed in the Pacific on 15 January

Earth is getting 50,000 tonnes lighter every year, even while 40,000 tonnes of space dust fall on our planet's surface during the same period. So, why are we losing so much weight? You will be surprised

How resveratrol benefits health a matter of debate 

The results help piece together a puzzle on the biological processes of genes and cells, and in particular on cell division

The European Space Agency's light launcher is set to lift off 

It takes 24 million generations for mouse-sized mammals to evolve into elephants — but shrinking back is much faster 

2010 Haiti quake may portend increased seismic activity in comin decades 

Stephen J. O'Brien, has left the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity after 25 years as its head to help jump-start genome bioinformatics at St. Petersburg University in Russia

Researchers now report that doses of the metal manganese neutralize the poison, possibly leading to the first treatment that halts its insidious effects

UK population could harbour thousands of silent infections

Winners of the Cyberscreen Science Film Festival at Science Online 2012

Players of the online game Foldit guide researchers to a better enzymePlayers of the online game Foldit guide researchers to a better enzyme

Clocks around the world are routinely adjusted to keep them ticking in synchrony with the rising and setting of the Sun – but is that effort just a waste of time?

The result, if it stands up to scrutiny, would tighten the limits, suggested by some theories, on how ‘lumpy’ space-time can be

The meticulous insects pirouette atop their dung balls to get their bearings and correct navigational errors

By stringing together SDO images scientists for the first time directly witnessed the death of a comet as it unfolded

Study tracks cognitive stability from childhood to old age and reveals extent of genetic influence  

Astronomers have made the largest map yet of dark matter in the universe

The highest-resolution map of chromosome interactions in metazoans so far marks a new era of ‘3D genetics’