May 2008

• Nanosponges could soak up oil spills - Premium content

  Sheets of tangled nanowires can be used to draw oil from water.

  30 May 2008

• Readers' choice: How cells save their energy - Premium content

  Energy-hungry cells die if they can't put the brakes on protein production.

  30 May 2008

• Unexpected origin of an early Eskimo - Premium content

  But hair sample could have been from a wandering mercenary.

  29 May 2008

• Computer model knows what you're thinking - Premium content

  Researchers can predict which noun a person is visualizing.

  29 May 2008

• Muse: Why we should love logarithms - Premium content

  The tendency of 'uneducated' people to compress the number scale for big numbers is actually an admirable way of measuring the world, says Philip Ball.

  29 May 2008

• VIDEO: Monkeys move robotic arm using brain power - Premium content

  'Brain#19;machine interface' might one day help people with disabilities.

  28 May 2008

• Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics - Premium content

  Drug eases alcohol cravings and anxiety in rats addicted to alcohol.

  28 May 2008

• Plasma twisters seen on the Sun - Premium content

  Three-dimensional images could help to explain solar jets.

  28 May 2008

• Venerable institute gets a refit - Premium content

  Britain's Royal Institution reopens for business.

  28 May 2008

• Climate anomaly is an artefact - Premium content

  Glitch in the twentieth-century climate record is explained.

  28 May 2008