Do fluffy dark stars litter our cosmos?
The cosmos could be littered with "dark stars" that are 100,000 times wider than our own Sun, much fluffier and only spit out invisible gamma rays, heat and antimatter, writes Roger Highfield
05 Dec 2007
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Why men like to marry younger women
The reason that men like to marry women who are years younger than themselves has been discovered: they have more grandchildren as a result., writes Roger Highfield.
05 Dec 2007
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London to lead in medical research
The Prime Minister has given his backing to a plan to build a half billion pound medical research centre in London, the biggest of its kind in the world, writes Roger Highfield.
05 Dec 2007
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Science: 'Who's Who' in science?
An appearance in 'Who's Who' is a rare moment of public recognition for a scientist. Roger Highfield salutes this year's new entries.
04 Dec 2007
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Chimps beat humans in memory test
Young chimps have been pitted against university students in laboratory tests of working memory and - overall - the chimps won.
03 Dec 2007
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Mummified dinosaur had a big bottom
The remains of "Dakota", a huge, crested duck billed dinosaur that lived 67 million years ago, have been found to be partially mummified.
03 Dec 2007
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Exercise your way to happiness
A new class of antidepressant drug could result from a study that reveals why exercise is a powerful way to banish the blues.
02 Dec 2007
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As part of the Telegraph's home experiments series, Nobel prizewinner Sir Tim Hunt suggested we test the idea that the antibiotics in egg white will stop it going rotten. Here, thanks to time lapse technology, is what happened to egg white over more than 50 days.
Today it is our idea of hell but scientists now think that Venus was once much more Earth-like and awash with water until an eco-disaster struck. |
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