 Scientists studying why parasites are not more harmful to their hosts have discovered that as the world becomes more connected so natural selection will favour more dangerous parasites
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 Astronomers from the University of Warwick believe that a mystery stellar explosion during 2006 was the death of a ‘carbon star’ and may be a totally new class of supernova.
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 A team of scientists have developed a robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers.
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 Scientists from Oxford University, in collaboration with the charity Save The Elephants, have used the elephant’s natural fear of bees to help farmers in Africa to protect their crops from scavenging pachyderms.
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 New meta-survey raises serious concerns about scientific misconduct
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 Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial performance in 2008, according to a new report.
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 Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems - but this also raises a problem - how do you spot the smaller earth-like planets in a wealth of data?
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 The secret of building a perfect sandcastle is in making sure the sand is neither too wet nor too dry and this technique is now being used to optimise sustainable building materials.
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 How do you do about detecting something that has yet to be created? Well Scientists from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Arizona State University, have done just that by uncovered a method for creating and observing the exotic atom muonium.
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 Once again, Cheltenham Science Festival brought together an eclectic group of scientists and science communicators with the public in an explosion (quite often literally) of fun and learning.
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 Scientists think they may have opened the door to dramatically less expensive and more versatile lasers, brighter LED lighting, and biological markers that track how a drug interact with a cell at a level never before possible.
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 A new generation of electric cars, mobile phones and laptops could be just around the corner thanks to a new kind of air powered battery.
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 A bowl of whole-grain cereal is as good as a sports drink for recovery after exercise.
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 Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily.
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 A new paper by a UK academic attempts to slay two giants in one claiming that the Large Hadron Collider didn't work not because of mechanical failure, but because basic theories of physics may be wrong.
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 Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person's nose is too low, according to new research.
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 It may be the nemesis of the more green fingered amongst you – but the humble aphid holds the key to understanding the movements of large mammals and birds, say scientists.
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 Almost 65% of cases of stomach cancer are related to Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacteria but until recently the link was not fully understood.
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 A team of academics have gone back to nature to figure out how to bring carbon capture and storage a step closer.
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 Swine flu, avian flu and SARS – It seems that infectious disease is rarely far from a headline – but are we too quick to panic?
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 Researchers have found that islands are more important for maintaining global biodiversity than mainland.
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 Researchers from MIT have been electrospinning fibres that could be used for protective clothing, drug delivery and tissue engineering.
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 Research initiated and coordinated by Imperial College London has been named Trial of the Year 2008 by Project ImpACT and the Society for Clinical Trials.
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 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded $23 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to spearhead an international research programme fighting river blindness.
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 Italian scientists have begun to analyse the devastating effects of last month’s earthquake that shook the medieval town of L’Aquila in central Italy.
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 An international team of astronomers have found that distant remnants of stars like the sun could be harbouring the remains of solar system ours.
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 Christie’s in London sold a silver Leeuwenhoek microscope last month for the staggering total of over £321,000 yet fewer than forty people were there to witness this record-breaking sale.
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 Researchers say they have created the first machine to independently discover new scientific knowledge.
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 Nectar producing plants beware - when it comes to spotting a fraud, bees have a nose second to none.
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 British scientists have won a prize for replacing animal experiments in medical research for the development of a test tube based 3-D model of human breast cancer.
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 The London Centre for Nanotechnology will develop a new device to empower HIV sufferers to monitor their own health and reaction to treatments.
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 Maintaining a healthy body weight is good news for the environment, according to a new study.
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 Viruses genetically engineered at MIT can build batteries with the same energy capacity and power performance as state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries used in hybrid cars.
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 Unless extra funding is pumped into agricultural research - severe food shortages could be only 20 years away
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