Driverless cars will be trialed on the roads of the UK by January 2015
Quick Fire Science
Your quickfire guide to hot scientific topics...
Crowd funding programmes have raised money for Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to monitor carbon dioxide...
This week the Michigan town of Hell froze over - but why are temperatures plummeting across America?
NASA's Curiosity rover has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater.
How much energy is generating using renewables?
An introduction to the history and science of HIV/AIDS
The 19th November was World Toilet Day. Here's a Quick Fire Science on sanitation, and the future of the toilet
The 2013 opium harvest was the largest on record. But what is it, and what is its history?
Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.
With Bonfire Night fast approaching, the chemistry of fireworks and gunpowder receives the Quick Fire Science treatment
As a new Great British Bake Off champion is crowned, here's your quick fire science on baking...
With researchers asking for help to track the Spanish slug, here's your quick fire science on invasive species...
Awarded annually for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, what are the Nobel Prizes?
A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called 'bog body' with intact...
The largest passenger ship salvage operation ever is currently underway in Italy, as experts try to raise the MS Costa...
Why is it so hard to breed pandas in captivity, and why are vets unsure whether a panda in Edinburgh Zoo is pregnant?
The 'Walkie Talkie' in London has been damaging cars this week by acting as a parabolic reflector, targeting...
Concerns are being raised about cooling water leaks at Fukushima. But how does a nuclear power station work?
Could trains be built to travel as fast as jet liners?
What are meteors, and what's the best way to observe them?
Scientists have grown a burger in the lab, but do we need artificial meat?
Our recent spell of hot weather in the UK has seen a dramatic rise in the number of jellyfish in UK waters. But what...
Claudia and Priya give you 11 facts about organ donation and the World Transplant Games
A team at Toronto university won the “Igor I. Sikorsky Competition” by building a man-powered helicopter...
A baby was born in the US this week, thanks to a new genetic screening technique for IVF embryos