Cenex, the UK’s first national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is hosting a joint two-day conference, exhibition and seminar on Low Carbon Vehicle Technology and Low Emission Transport Strategies, at The Source at Meadowhall, Sheffield, on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th March.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to create a beating rat heart using the outer structure of one heart and injecting heart cells from another rat.

Scientists are examining whether they can capture the energy driving human sperm to propel nanoscale robots to deliver medicine.

When history is written, how will the fiasco of Man-Made Global Warming be described? Will those responsible for propagating one of the biggest scams in history be given their due credit? This is a complex subject. One I will try and summarise.

Once more, a case of the lethal H5N1 strain of avian flu has been found in eastern England. This time, though, nobody cares.

Research shows that we sleep less than we think we do. One Australian, on the other hand, can snooze for more than a year straight.

German Gerhard Ertl has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg have been announced as winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance, which made smaller magnetic hard drives, and the iPod possible.

This question has been asked numerous times throughout time and has been widely debated among scientists. Now new research shed some light on this debate.

Britain abandons the Doctor's White Coat today after a hundred years of successful use- we ask why.

Sex is hard work fundementally. Who would want to do it when there are better things to do like lie in the Sun all day- at least that was the attitude of one Koala bear until a potential rival turned up and suddenly he became very interested in the subject.

Recent news that Owen Wilson the Hollywood actor has attempted suicide prompts us to reconsider one of the most depressing phenomenon of modern life at the moment- the rising suicide rate amongst young and old men.

NASA scientists have discovered a dying star 350 light-years away from earth that's hurtling through space with a comet like tail in it's wake.

Yesterday in Tuscany archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved Etruscan tomb dating to some time between the first and third centuries B.C.E, or nearing the end of the Etruscan period.

Apparantly space has not seen humanity at its best- as it has recently been reported by an independent NASA report that the agency has let many astronauts go into space whilst drunk. Henry Midgley reflects

New evidence suggests that Alexandria could much older than historians had thought. Archaeologists have discovered material suggesting that the site was home to a major settlement for seven hundred years or more before the time of Alexander.

Should we circumcise adult males in the West to reduce the threat of Aids- scientific research on Africa suggests that such measures can reduce the threat- and the World Health Organisation recently endorsed moves to begin programs in Africa- should we implement such a strategy in the West as well.

In movies and television shows, CPR is often misrepresented as being highly effective in resuscitating a person who is not breathing and has no circulation. Actually, a study showed that CPR success rates in television shows was 75%. In real life, only 5-10% of people who receive CPR survive. But why do so many attempts of resuscitation fail?

Most people have probably, at one point or another expressed the opinion that some civil servant was a bit lacking for brains. But seldom did it turn out to be so literally true. A 44 year old French civil servant has been going about his life, marriage, and job, with what turns out to be a head filled almost entirely with fluid.

One of the most important locations in Scottish history has been rediscovered. Scone Abbey has been found near Moot Hill, where from the ninth century onwards, every Scottish King was crowned.

A Thracian gold mask was found yesterday in what is yet another archaeological finding in the southern part of Bulgaria. The archaeological findings have added invaluable knowledge to historians about the Thracian culture that existed some 2500 years ago.

The European Society for Medical Oncology reports that a virus has been specifically designed by scientists to be safe to normal tissue but deadly to cancer. The virus shows promise in early clinical trials.

It has long been known that Viking explorers, traders, and settlers made their way across the North Atlantic, first to the North Sea Islands, then to Iceland and Greenland, and even to the Newfoundland area of North America.

But the accepted narrative is that the forays into the American continent proper were brief, and their contact with the native peoples there was nasty, brutish, and short. But a 1000 year old skeleton found in a burial ground in Norway shows traits usually only found in Inca Indians.

One of the greatest cities of the ancient world has been rebuilt using 3D computer graphics, for 10 years an international team of archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from the University of Virginia and UCLS, as well as research institutes in Italy, Germany and Britain have been working on “Rome Reborn”.

The digital reproduction of Rome is the biggest computer simulation of an ancient city ever made, and it is an almost complete reproduction of the city at its peak in 320 AD.

The team have rebuilt almost the entire city within its original 13 mile-long wall (21 km). Some 7,000 buildings at the time of emperor Constantine, and even the interiors of about 30 buildings, among them the Senate, the Colosseum and the basilica built by the emperor Maxentius.

Some 12,900 years ago disaster struck the North American continent. The Earth's climate, which had been getting steadily warmer at the tail end of the retreating Ice Age, suddenly dropped catastrophically. The megafauna, such as camels and mammoth died out. And the first people to populate the American landscape saw their numbers drop by an estimated 75%. A number of explanations have been offered for why this happened. One of the latest is that cataclysmic event thought to have caused several other upheavals in the Earth's history, an impact from outer space.

Scientists at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), claim to have found what might very well be one of the oldest stars in our Universe to this date. The star has been named HE 1523-0901 and is calculated to be 13.2 billion years old, created only some 500 million years after the Big Bang, the zero-point-in-time incident that is believed to have led to the creation of the Universe.

Scientists have announced they have begun assembling an Internet catalogue of every living thing on Earth. The organizers say the new website will become the single location where researchers can go to study the nearly 2 million known plant and animal species. This so-called Encyclopaedia of Life is expected to be a major help to scientists in developing countries.

An electronic Encyclopaedia of Life has long been a goal of researchers. They say it is possible only now because of advances in Internet technology, high-resolution digital photography, and the ability to quickly read the genetic codes of species.

Europe's new satellite navigation system Galileo, which is meant to compete with the US Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) seems to be in a bit of a crisis and the European Union is considering to take over control of the project.

The consortium of eight companies from France, Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy charged with building and running the Galileo has been given a May 10 deadline to sort out their differences. Almost two years after the project’s start, they have yet to make any progress and are still quarrelling about who is going to do what.

EU officials said Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot will present on May 16 a list of alternatives for the struggling project, the alternatives are expected to range from totally taking over Galileo, a system of some 30 satellites which could be operational as late as 2013, partially financing the project or abandoning it altogether, officials have said.

Retroviruses such as HIV establish contact and enter their target cells via an interaction between certain proteins, called spikes, on the surface of the virus and specific membrane receptors on the host cell.

Now, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have visualized, using an advanced imaging technique known as Electron Tomography (ET), what they call the "entry claw", a unique structure formed between the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS and the cell it infects.

Just about any chef know that by spinning an egg you can find out if the core is solid or liquid, now astronomers have applied a similar test to the planet Mercury and have found strong evidence that the planet closest to the sun has a liquid core.

The research, led by Jean-Luc Margot, assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell, appears this week on the Web site of the journal Science.

Jean-Luc Margot and collaborators conducted a series of observations over five years using a novel technique to detect tiny twists in Mercury’s spin as it orbits the sun. The twists, called longitudinal librations, occur as the sun’s gravity exerts alternating torques on the planet’s slightly asymmetrical shape.