Astronomy
Mining asteroids: Going platinum
Mining metals from asteroids seems a bonkers idea. But could it work?(130)
Popular astronomy: Plutonic love
Defending Pluto's planetary rights is a great way to teach children about astronomy(19)
Matter and antimatter: Flavoursome research
Physicists are closing in on how matter differs from antimatter(15)
Searching for aliens: The wow factor
A new citizen-science project will improve the chances of finding ET(47)
Ofer Lahav on dark energy: An accelerating universe
The head of the science programme at the Dark Energy Survey on the rapidly expanding universe and the future of dark-energy research(37)
Cosmology: The dark side of the universe
Scientists are trying to understand why the universe is running away from them(118)
New documentary: "The City Dark": Everything is illuminated
Ian Cheney may not make the case that life before electric light was somehow superior, but this film is charming all the same(1)
Extraterrestrial intelligence: Lonely planet
If there were an advanced civilisation out there, they really ought to have called on Earth by now(108)
Daily chart: Life on Mars (and elsewhere)
A new index scores planetary bodies on their suitability for life(51)
Another Earth?: Home away from home
The existence of the most Earthlike planet yet has just been confirmed(84)
The exploration of Mars: Borscht, Mars and the Great Galactic Ghoul
The probable loss of a Russian Mars probe is the latest in a long line of setbacks for explorers of the Red Planet(18)
Astronomy: Throwing money into space
A shiny new telescope is crowding out NASA’s other science missions(77)
Science in South Africa: All squared
A new radio telescope may catalyse African science(66)
Climate and the solar cycle: Chilling out in the winter sun
Stratospheric changes can lead to nasty cold snaps(84)
The 2011 Nobel prizes: Expanding horizons
This year’s prizes were awarded for work on the immune system, the expansion of the universe and quasicrystals(10)
The 2011 Nobel prize for physics: Expanding horizons
This year's Nobel prize for physics was awarded for what was, in a sense literally, the biggest discovery ever made in physics—that the universe is not only expanding, but that the rate of expansion is increasing(61)
Citizen astronomy: A new world in your bedroom
Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters(20)
Copernicus’s cosmos: Oh heavens, no
How one man took on the church(23)
Particle physics: The dark at the end of the tunnel?
Evidence for the existence of dark matter begins to stack up(35)
Inside story: Muscling in on motors
Materials science: Electroactive polymers, also known as artificial muscles, could replace electric motors in some applications(2)
Climate science (II): Clouds in a jar
A new experiment with old apparatus reveals a flaw in models of the climate(155)
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