 The world’s oldest recorded tree - clocking in at an ancient 9,550 years old - has been found in Sweden.
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 Researchers at MIT think that they may be on to a better, cheaper way of detecting the power of a hurricane – simply listen to how strong it is.
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 New research suggests that all those jokes at the expense of drummers may be way off the mark - it turns out that rhythmic accuracy and intelligence go hand in hand.
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.JPG) Carrying your children may well be good for bonding – but, according to new research, it doesn’t explain why we walk upright.
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 Zoologists have found that bats overcome toxins in their diet with a love for mineral water and clay.
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 Data from the SOHO spacecraft – a joint NASA and ESA project – has shown astronomers powerful starquakes rippling around the Sun in the wake of mighty solar flares.
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 As researchers discover that seasonal flu is seeded by viruses originating in Asia - one scientist thinks that pandemic influenza is a construct designed for commercial gain.
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 Based on UK research, the Food Standards Agency is to recommend to Ministers the phasing out of six food and drink colourings in the EU for their role in ADHD.
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 Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption – and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds and Copenhagen.
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 Researchers think they may have found an unlikely new ally in the battle against asthma – gut parasites.
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 Nanotechnologists in China have found the perfect way to synthesise a compound vital to the development of optoelectronics – and to do it they have turned to eggshells.
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 Researchers at Swansea University are developing a new, eco-friendly technology that could generate as much electricity as 50 wind farms.
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 A new study examining social behaviour suggests certain individuals are genetically programmed to cheat and often will do… providing they can get away with it.
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.jpg) A new project is to investigate how swarms of miniature robots can work and evolve together.
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.jpg) The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate but, say the European Space Agency, it must be easily accessible in order to apply it to the global needs relating to the state of the Earth.
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 A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an antidote to Bacillus anthracis – more commonly know as anthrax.
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 The theory of panspermia - that life on planets like Earth and Mars was seeded from space - has received a boost as scientists claim to have found amino acids in their highest ever concentration in two ancient meteorites which crashed to Earth millions of years ago.
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 Small sample size is a problem often encountered in laboratory life, but scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have tackled an altogether different problem with their biggest sample yet – a 14 tonne bridge.
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 The discovery of 10 new planets has been announced at the Royal Astronomical Society’s largest ever National Astronomy Meeting.
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 Scientists have given those that like a morning doughnut every now and then a top tip for countering some of the affects of cholesterol - have it with a nice cup of coffee.
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 Sharks and other marine animals find food using a similar search pattern to the way people may shop, according to one of the largest analyses of foraging behaviour attempted so far.
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 Research has uncovered how Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could open up MRSA to attack by penicillin and help create a library of designer antibiotics.
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 The environmentally focused budget predicted by many did not materialise and although the chancellor had much to say on green issues, action was thinner on the ground. However it was a brighter story for the future of science education.
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 It was “creeping degradation of standards” at the Institute for Animal Health’s Pirbright laboratories that led to last year’s foot-and-mouth outbreak an independent inquiry has said.
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 Four researchers from the University of Edinburgh, who all played a key role in the development of the mobile phone camera, have been awarded the Rank Prize for their work in developing and commercialising technology.
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 The Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service has joined forces with the Research and Technology lab of Thales UK, in Reading, to assist in the development of a new Indoor Positioning System (IPS), which can pinpoint people inside smoke filled buildings.
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 Researchers have found that the way we transport iron through our blood stream can malfunction and cause a build up of worm-like fibrils containing bands of rust.
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 The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have given the go ahead for a project to develop a new light source facility in the UK.
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 Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered how you got there? Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found the answer, with research that shows that humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.
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 We might think we control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitants on this planet we might be fighting a losing battle, according to researchers in Scotland.
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 Ever managed to isolate what a particular person is saying while simultaneously ignoring what another nearby person is saying? Well now scientists have discovered how we can control our hearing in this way.
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 First came unmanned probes then a dog, and then the space race’s crowning achievement – man. Now - for better or for worse - it seems that adverts are also space bound.
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.jpg) Not only is the aptly named Hercules Beetle the strongest creature in the world, capable of lifting 850 times its own weight, it mysteriously changes colour depending on the humidity.
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 New research suggests that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor.
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 Cutting edge synchrotron technology generating light beams 10 billion times brighter than the sun are being used to probe the Tudor war ship, the Mary Rose.
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 An instrument designed and developed by research students at the University of Southampton has visited space on board the space shuttle Atlantis.
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