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Flying car completes Phase One flight tests
I always wanted a flying car. Now Terrafugia has built a prototype, and its Phase One flight testing in June 2012 was a success.
July 2, 2012
Chris Jones: Best ways to reduce your greenhouse gas output
Chris Jones explores ways you can cut down on the greenhouse gases you put in the air, and what's the best way to do it?
June 28, 2012
Best science images in 2012
Diverse, fascinating and beautiful images from this year's Wellcome Image Awards, highlighting the best science images of 2012.
June 25, 2012
DNA barcodes for seafood by David Schindel
High-priced fish are often mislabeled - sometimes accidentally, sometimes not - David Schindel says. DNA barcodes for seafood will ensure quality and authenticity in the fish you eat.
June 23, 2012
Development banks to invest $175 billion for clean urban transport
Urban transport insiders are heralding this announcement as a "real breakthrough" for sustainable transport and sustainable development.
June 21, 2012
Microbiome: Learning to love your inner cooties
They aren’t just found on trash cans, toilets, and infrequently laundered lab coats. Human-housed microbes and their genes are known as the human microbiome.
June 20, 2012
Sky City One in China: 104 elevators, living space for 174,000
The secret to building the world's tallest building - Sky City One - in only 90 days, at much less cost of its nearest rival building? Prefabrication.
June 19, 2012
The nastiest surfaces in your hotel room
An experiment that examined hotel room surfaces found TV remotes to be among the most heavily contaminated with bacteria so are the nastiest surfaces in the room.
June 19, 2012
This is your brain on no self-control
New pictures show - this is your brain - what your brain looks like when you run out of patience and lose your self-control.
June 18, 2012
Genetically-engineered mosquitoes can’t transmit malaria
Scientists have used genetically-engineered mosquitoes whose immune systems kill the malaria parasite. These mosquitoes can't transmit malaria with their bites.
June 17, 2012
