Yeast shows the way between nature and nurture

Drilling down the dumps

Household garbage produces large quantities of methane which leaks into the atmosphere and contributes to the greenhouse effect. A Swedish …

Goodbye, freon

Russian researchers have come up with a power-saving and ozone-friendly refrigerator which operates without a motor and uses a semiconductor as …

Cooking up remedies

Recent techniques to convert natural gas into liquid form may soon make it cheap and convenient fuel for vehicles

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Cheaper natural gas from oilfields

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Soaking in the sun

The US is trying to revive solar thermal power technology

Bright idea

Catalysis breakthrough makes chemical production green

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere

Sooty clues

Launch by a bomber

Birds of a feather

It's curtains on sound and light

Rockets go-ahead

Cool sound

Auctioning legacies

Bang on clusters

Models to explain the formation of structures in the universe take shape

Return to glaze

Swift scaler

Memory miracle

Active signals

A new machine helps quadriplegics move through electric impulses

First gender

Two genes induce the intrinsically female embryo to change into a male

Bookish bacteria

Bacteria can be used to produce paper

Language no bar

Good news for diplomats. This new machine will give them respite from interpreters