Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life
Synthetic genome pioneer Craig Venter says that his team is close to creating a living bacterium made completely from scratch
Mystery boson earns Higgs status thanks to W particle
New decay data confirms that the unsatisfyingly named "Higgs-like particle" announced at CERN last year really is a Higgs boson
That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library
Metals that cry, living concrete and a handcuffed Texan's briefcase: the diversity of the materials we create says a lot about us, finds Richard Fisher
Reality TV paves way for Neil Armstrong of Mars
Giant leaps in spacecraft design mean that quirky commercial ventures could be one small step away from putting bootprints on the Red Planet
Living on the edge of the Snake
Teetering untidily on the edge of the Snake river canyon, the Idaho town of Jerome captures the continuing tension between human settlement and nature
Cloning record broken - next up clones from faeces
After cloning 25 generations from a single mouse, the next step for a Japanese lab is to attempt to make clones from mouse fur, stuffed bodies and excrement
Fuel of the future: How fiery ice could power Asia
If the first attempt to exploit frozen methane beneath Japan's seabed works, it could herald the next great energy source for the region - and maybe the world
Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?
Katrina van Grouw's The Unfeathered Bird is a stunning collection of her drawings, complemented by plenty of ornithological nuggets
To wipe out leprosy, we have to find it
With a new rapid-result blood test and a vaccine in the works, leprosy eradication may soon be a reality, says immunologist Malcolm Duthie, who created the test
First rapid planet-reader makes unique family portrait
A technique for snapping the spectra of extrasolar planets detects the molecular clues of all planets in a star system simultaneously
What your Facebook 'likes' really say about you
Facebook gleans a huge amount of information from your "likes" on the site - from your ethnicity and sexuality to your personality and politics
Antibiotic resistance an 'apocalyptic threat'
Antibiotics to fight the global spread of deadly bacteria are out there already but they are being stymied by unrealistic regulatory requirements and market pressures
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