Science in culture

• Science arts centre opens in a blaze of colour

  Gallery launches Linz as European City of Culture.

  5 January 2009

• Year of the what? - Premium content

  Nature News rounds up who's celebrating their year in 2009.

  1 January 2009

• Whatever happened to &? - Premium content

  As the year draws to a close, Nature looks back on a selection of news stories to find out what happened next.

  30 December 2008

• IN BRIEF: Vatican formalizes rules on human stem-cell research - Premium content

  17 December 2008

• 2008 Gallery: Images of the year - Premium content

  This gallery showcases some of the year's most eye-catching science, from a close encounter with squid suckers that look like a carnivorous cartoon choir to mathematical forms given shape in purple yarn. It also recalls some of the biggest science news stories: the staggering devastation wrought by Hurricane Ike; a Nobel prize for putting a glowing protein to work; and the ongoing robotic exploration of Mars.

  17 December 2008

• Vatican toughens stance on embryo research - Premium content

  Proclamation on biomedical science and reproductive medicine revised.

  12 December 2008

• OPINION: Fearing the fear of nanotechnology - Premium content

  Hard data could help dispel scientists' preconceptions about the public, argues Richard Jones.

  9 December 2008

• Q&A: UK DNA database needs overhaul - Premium content

  Inventor of DNA fingerprinting welcomes a ruling that will keep the innocent out of genetic databases.

  8 December 2008

• MUSE: Is the hunt for extraterrestrial life misguided? - Premium content

  Attempts to probe the Universe for advanced civilizations may be unscientific, says Philip Ball, but that shouldn't stop us.

  8 December 2008

• What you don't learn at school about the economy - Premium content

  Ignoring decades of sophisticated economic theory spells trouble for us all, argues Philip Ball.

  29 October 2008