For stability

For better imaging

The development of a new material will improve ultrasound techniques

Packing more power

A four-atom oxygen molecule might make for good fuel

Lightly reactive

Materials that can be modified by changing light conditions

Fighting corrosion

Solar power helps prevent rusting

Attractive alloy

Magnetic scraps are converted into valuable alloys

Quake trigger

Tides are extremely harmful

Cheap catalysts

To produce biodiesel

Molecular computers

Irish study gives the green signal

First hiker's map of Mars

Scientists trace the origin of black diamonds to space

Tricolour on moon

Mars rover finds water

Images sent by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show dark streaks up to four metres wide running down the sides of some slopes on the …

2016: the year in space and astronomy

Colliding black holes to exploding spacecraft, 2016 was an incredible year for astrophysics

Shutting down the particle powerhouse

Even though funds for the Superconducting Super Collider have dried up, particle physicists are determined to prove their theory of, well, everything

Making clothes more comfortable

A mathematical theory may result in an objective technique to evaluate both the comfort of a fabric and how it will behave over time

A new technique to control laser intensity

Indian scientists have developed a technique that uses electromagnetic radiation to manipulate the intensity of laser beams.

Return of the tube

Announcing the second coming of vacuum tubes, which were wiped out by transistors and integrated circuits

Reaching into the mind

Computer imaging of the human brain promises to open new vistas for medical scientists

Trouble for SOHO

Ground hero

US scientists develop a quick and accurate method to detect radioactive waste

Artificial body

Japanese scientists have discovered a new material that can grow new cells in the human body

Resilient biomaterial

From fruitfly

Sludge-scrapers

Cement from sewage

Formation of stars linked to evolution of life on earth