Mission boosts China's space ambitions53

By 2011, the Chinese aim to set up a space lab; by 2020, launch a manned mission to test new technologies 29/09/08 4:31 AM 53

Editor's Choice: To infinity and beyond ...23

Swiss daredevil crosses English Channel strapped to homemade jet wings 26/09/08 2:47 PM 23

Chinese astronaut takes historic walk in space83

China makes another step towards long-term goal of assembling a space lab as Zhai Zhigang completes country's first space walk 27/09/08 2:21 PM 83

‘Beijing, we have a problem'54

News article describing successful launch of China's space mission, including astronaut dialogue, hits Web before rocket leaves the ground 25/09/08 9:38 AM 54

Is that a planet circling 1RXS J160929.1-210524?1

The world pays attention when U of T makes a discovery, like the spectacular one made public this week 20/09/08 2:10 PM 1

Okapi alive and in pictures32

Rare Congo animal – not seen in natural habitat in 50 years – photographed for first time in wild; three individuals already identified 11/09/08 11:41 AM 32

Space shuttle moved to launch pad as rescue ship17

NASA gets prepared in case something goes wrong with upcoming Hubble Space Telescope mission 19/09/08 6:15 AM 17

Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter16

Crash shows clear separation between ordinary matter, which slowed down, and dark matter, which did not 28/08/08 1:00 PM 16

Monster magnets support space lace7

Giant fields of magnetism in distant galaxy keeps pattern of glowing gas filaments from collapsing 21/08/08 1:51 PM 7

Black clouds on the horizon for birds91

From field sparrows to boreal chickadees, 20 of the most common species in North America are being decimated, report warns 23/09/08 4:27 AM 91

Duck snoop6

A scientist has put 90 rubber ducks into a Greenland glacier in a bid to find out what's happening inside it 23/09/08 4:26 AM 6

Early fish had primitive fingers, study finds43

Creatures from 380 million years ago upend prevailing theories of evolution, authors contend. 22/09/08 11:49 AM 43

Gene offers clue to canine collapse

Mutation is the reason many Labrador retrievers suffer collapse of rear legs after strenuous exercise. 22/09/08 11:46 AM

Aspirin: Some plants like it, too8

National Center for Atmospheric Research discover that stressed plants produce an aspirin-like chemical to fight disease, insect infestation or other ailments 18/09/08 11:05 AM 8

Frog comes out of the Australian mist8

Researchers in country's tropical north discover amphibian – the armoured mistfrog – long thought to be extinct 11/09/08 9:57 AM 8

Colourful bacteria could reveal oil spills7

Scientists hold out hope that doctoring organism to light up when exposed to pollution will help in controlling leaks 11/09/08 9:48 AM 7

Last mammoths came from North America118

McMaster researchers find groups from Yukon and Alaska and from Siberia so distinct that they could have been separate species 04/09/08 12:32 PM 118

Editor's choice: Name your tunes28

What you like may define your personality 05/09/08 8:38 AM 28

Brazil's jungle harbours traces of lost cities34

Lifestyles of ancient urban cultures reveal more complexity than anthropologists had thought 28/08/08 2:14 PM 34

Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital

Israeli scientists to make 2,000-year-old documents available on Internet 27/08/08 12:36 PM

Nails, copper may be Franklin ships4

Searchers have turned up relics that may have come from two of the world's most sought-after marine archeological prizes 27/08/08 4:20 AM 4

Thracian tomb reveals chariot5

Ancient four-wheeled vehicle found in archeological dig near Bulgarian capital 07/08/08 12:55 PM 5

Ancient 'computer' had Olympic purpose22

A forerunner of modern chronology, the device measured months, eclipses and cycles of the Greek Olympiad 31/07/08 5:52 AM 22

Vast Neolithic site found in southern China29

Excavations of thousands of artifacts, wooden poles found 4.5 metres underground continues 22/07/08 1:35 PM 29

Ancient Rome's she-wolf not so ancient?15

Controversy arises in Italy over suggestion that one of capital's most powerful symbols dates only from Middle Ages rather than Etruscan times 11/07/08 1:19 PM 15

England's heritage sites in danger28

English Heritage group says neglect, weather and even rabbits put thousands of historic locations at risk 08/07/08 1:30 PM 28

Atom-smasher shut down for two months11

Helium leak found just 10 days after universe-probing system switched on amid great scientific fanfare. 22/09/08 11:44 AM 11

Collider's launch may spell end to U.S. lead in science192

Successful European launch of world's largest science experiment marks powerful new turn in science wars 11/09/08 6:54 AM 192

New tests could improve Vesuvius predictions2

Magma pool feeding famous Italian volcano shows shifting positions, making scientists shift their views 10/09/08 1:10 PM 2

Risk of big earthquake doubled by China's hit1

So much geologic stress created in Tibetan plateau that nearby fault lines more likely to fracture 11/09/08 9:32 AM 1

Inside the search for the God particle7

Scientists using a $9.5-billion accelerator have launched the most ambitious particle physics experiment in history: They're on the hunt for the never-before-detected Higgs boson that many theorize binds the universe together 10/09/08 3:53 AM 7

Particle accelerator put to good use12

French scientists devise way to test age of glass in wine bottles, which will aid in authentication of vintage wines without damaging contents 03/09/08 1:33 PM 12

If lost in pasture, check the beef34

Satellite photos show that most of them are likely to be oriented in a north-south direction 26/08/08 1:02 PM 34

Precise radiation can target cancer after spread8

New technique can attack metastasized tumours one by one, giving reprieve of 10 months to more than two years so far 14/08/08 2:17 PM 8

Invisibility cloak one step closer, scientists say23

Invisibility cloak one step closer, scientists say 10/08/08 7:14 PM 23

Chicken-sized dinosaur discovered in Alberta58

Albertonykus borealist believed to have eaten insects, similar to a modern anteater 23/09/08 9:29 PM 58

Reef could provide clues to evolution10

Australian scientists find 650-million-year-old reef in what's now an outback mountain range. 22/09/08 11:44 AM 10

Doubt cast on discovery of dinosaur soft tissue1

Scientists suggest material taken from bones may simply be bacteria rather than T. rex protein 30/07/08 1:56 PM 1

Fossil from head to, almost, tip of tail19

Japanese, Mongolian scientists recover complete skeleton of young kin of T rex 24/07/08 1:50 PM 19

More blind patients helped by gene therapy

Study lends further support to the experimental approach 23/09/08 10:36 AM

Bioprospectors head north for Arctic DNA20

Companies have begun to profit from the adaptations of organisms in the North, but a UN think tank suggests Canada is falling behind 08/09/08 3:31 AM 20

Survivors of 1918 pandemic still protected9

Discovery by influenza, immunity researchers of long-lasting antibodies suggests new ways to fight viruses 18/08/08 1:34 PM 9

Company delivers first commercial dog clones75

'Yes, I know you! You know me, too!' woman says as she receives five puppies cloned from her late pet 05/08/08 6:18 AM 75

Scientists say carbon dioxide emissions up 3%491

The world is spewing more carbon dioxide than the worst-case scenario forecast in 2007. 26/09/08 9:12 AM 491

'Chemical equator' divides hemispheres72

Scientists have discovered a divide between polluted air from the Northern and Southern hemispheres 23/09/08 8:13 AM 72

Discovery waters down fears of fast-melting ice393

Ancient wedges in permafrost appear to have ‘stubbornness' to survive hotter periods – providing hope for a slower release of carbon 18/09/08 8:52 PM 393

Antarctic ozone hole already larger than in 200797

Hole in the ozone layer to keep growing for another few weeks, UN weather agency says 16/09/08 9:36 AM 97

Major companies agree to make anti-pollution patents public12

Information may help other companies solve their environmental problems without trying to reinvent anti-pollution devices created elsewhere 10/09/08 11:00 PM 12

UN sees World Heritage status for Iraqi marshes

Drained by Hussein in retaliation for perceived treachery during the war with Iran, large part of region restored to environmental health 05/09/08 6:49 PM

Experts scale back forecasts of sea levels316

Oceans may rise by up to two metres, but U.S. Researchers discount dire predictions 05/09/08 6:16 PM 316

Value found in old-growth forests81

Leaving trees standing may make more economic sense than logging them 04/09/08 1:51 PM 81

Keeping the North Sea at bay20

Dutch government to pay equivalent of $153-billion to extend coastal dunes, strengthen dikes as global warming portends higher water levels 03/09/08 2:03 PM 20