Rosetta – touching down on a comet for the first time
Comets are about the most elusive and poorly understood objects in the solar system but in just a few hours space scientists are about to get the closest they have ever been to one.
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Comets are about the most elusive and poorly understood objects in the solar system but in just a few hours space scientists are about to get the closest they have ever been to one.
William Hague stands down as foreign secretary and is replaced by Philip Hammond. Nicky Morgan replaces Michael Gove as education secretary and Kenneth Clarke exits.
A simple blood test that can predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease before recognisable symptoms appear could be available in two years, say scientists.
President Obama is taking a bold stand on climate emissions. But conservative critics are exaggerating the risk to the US economy.
As part of its bid for AstraZeneca, Pfizer has reached out to the UK’s scientific community with reassurances that it values research. But history suggests otherwise.
Antibiotics have revolutionised modern medicine. But bacteria are fighting back. And the need to find new drugs is urgent, warns the World Health Organisation.
Shareholders approve Barclays’ bonus pool package despite heated accusations that the bank is “paying for Manchester United but getting Colchester United”.
Senior police figures criticise Michael Gove’s “desperately unfortunate” decision to appoint a former anti-terror chief to investigate an alleged Islamist plot to take over 25 schools in Birmingham.
Thanks to some tenacious scientists, research data should be much more freely available in years to come.
Australian officials have detected two new signals in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 but time is running out as the batteries in on flight black boxes are expected to fail soon.
Ahead of publication of the latest IPCC report, there’s no real argument about the major climate change threat to the UK. Water is set to become this country’s biggest problem.
As US scientists confirm they have new evidence of what happened just after the Big Bang as well as how it has shaped the universe since, what are the other game-changing scientific breakthroughs?
Raising roads, dredging rivers, installing a tidal barrage: Somerset’s to-do list has been presented to government, but the cost will be high.
Bullying at work, the mental effects of an alleged rape and the break-up of a relationship all played their part in the death of Anne-Marie Ellement, who was found hanging in 2011, a coroner rules.
Another child has been killed after being mauled by a dog. How common are fatal dog attacks, and will changes in the law help prevent more tragedies?