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Animal-rights protesters have helped to end plans for a primate research centre at the University of Cambridge. But despite the activists' triumphant soundbites, their victory is unlikely to be repeated elsewhere.
Computer simulations that paint Europe's cities in riotous colour are at the core of a bold plan to restore peace and quiet to a population driven to distraction by traffic noise. Declan Butler takes a tour.
From reruns of a nineteenth-century experiment performed with breathtaking precision, we may gain our first glimpses of the physics that lies beyond Einstein's theories of relativity. Philip Ball reports.
Comparative genetic linkage studies in rats, mice and humans have finally identified a key component of vitamin K metabolism that is targeted by the commonest anticoagulant drugs in use today.
A surprising number of the icy objects in the Kuiper belt exist in pairs, or binaries. A new model proposes that these two-body systems were created through three-body interactions.
During egg and sperm production, the two copies of a duplicated chromosome must be bound together until it is time for their separation. A protein that protects this chromosomal glue has now been discovered.
Ammonia is produced industrially by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gas, catalysed over a solid iron surface. How about a catalytic reaction that could take place in solution? The first steps have now been taken.
Nerve transmission depends on voltage-gated ion-channel proteins, which in turn depend on the behaviour of a membrane domain called the voltage sensor. Therein lies the latest episode in a continuing story.
