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With dialogue between science and society all the rage, it would seem sensible to start young. A scheme for school education means well, but will fizzle out without the required commitment from government.
Two satellites that will chase one another around the globe are poised to map the Earth's gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy. Researchers are feeling the pull of the data, says David Adam.
Neuroscientists are starting to discover how our brains process music. This involves distinct neural circuits, but a mystery remains. Why are melody, harmony and rhythm so important to us? Alison Abbott tunes in.
To predict the future impact of mankind on living organisms, we need to know how organisms become adapted to a rapidly changing world and determine the limitations of adaptive processes.
An understanding of how ecosystems function is vital in guiding human use of natural resources. New work will fuel further debate over the knotty problem of how an ecosystem's diversity and stability are interlinked.
Being able to measure electronic spin is essential for future technologies such as 'spintronics'. The combination of two imaging methods for effective spin-detection has now been demonstrated.
Researchers are getting warm in their search for the details of cold detection. The discovery of a cold-sensitive ion channel will help dissect how the nervous system encodes and decodes the temperature spectrum.
We know little about the formation of stars that are many times heavier than our Sun. A new model, which estimates how long massive stars take to form, could be tested with data from telescope arrays.
During cell division, the membranes that surround the nucleus must be dismantled to allow the DNA housed inside the nucleus to be partitioned into two daughter cells. New work shows how this happens.
It is generally accepted that early human evolution took place in Africa, with human populations spreading from there. Using genetics to trace events in more detail remains a challenging task.
