The view from Westminster - Political roundup

SET-based news from Westminster this week was largely dominated by the subject of funding....

Nano-step forward

The progress of nanomachines has stepped forward as researchers have found a new way to sculpt material....

Supercomputer helps quest for quarks

Particle physicists are starting a new attempt to unravel the mysteries of quarks....

Drive on the loo

A British firm has come up with a new product that may raise a smile or two but will be a serious aid to the disabled....

Sea offers hope against MRSA

British scientists may have found a weapon against the MRSA superbug in the sea....

Antarctic drilling to resume

Russian scientists are to recommence drilling into the enigmatic Lake Vostok in the Antarctic....

E-extortion

A new brand of online crime has emerged with people's computers being held to ransom....

Voyager 1 reaches edge of solar system

The probe Voyager 1 is believed to be reaching the very ends of the solar system and is heading out into deep space....

Parkinson's and pesticides linked

Scottish researchers have found a link between Parkinson's disease and garden pesticides....

Mathematicians close to cracking twin prime conjecture

A group of international mathematicians has made major advances towards cracking one of the oldest and most difficult mathematical puzzles in the world: the twin prime conjecture....