Mind over matter

Smart computers try hard to get smarter

Failed Trojan horse

Analysing the contents of containers suspected of carrying toxins has become easier

Bridge safety

Tiny magnets are the key to quake-proof buildings and bridges

Now you see it

E-mail is ready to go visual as the 21st century approaches

Pump to ride

The Mir conundrum

Hypnosis in surgery

Rings of pressures

Where's mama?

Fool's paradise

Ignorance is not bliss after all

Light arrested

Light's speed is brought to zero. It could radically alter communication technology

Weaving a cell

What a switch

A bacterium in optical communications

Ray of hope

Czech Republic enacts law to combat light pollution menace

Magnetic neighbours

Mars once had a magnetic field as strong as the Earth

Latest entrant

New monkey species found

In remembrance

Demise of Stephen Jay Gould is a big loss for humanity

Re-counting

Insect species are much fewer than previously estimated

Rubbing up the right way!

Microscopic string like structures cause friction among surfaces

Deadly predictions

Troublesome cures

A dose of oral polio vaccine can revert into the disease-causing virus

Light induced magnetisation

Copy cat

Ouch this hurts!

Killing winters