Guiding light

Scientists 'guide' light through a new generation of fibre optic cables

Water bonds

One of water's many mysteries has been unravelled

Something stinks

Using special polymers, scientists are on trying to make an 'artificial nose'

Gene magic

Smart trees will produce more wood. Faster

Inside information

A tiny transmitter will soon help doctors keep a tab on life before birth

Walk this way

Researchers find ways to coax the paralysed to walk

Bubble gum therapy

Wind beneath my hood?

Heat over ice

Science shatters myth

Fight against cancer goes on

Music for words

Leather protein

Need a hand?

Geneticists examine how limbs were formed

Fifth wheel

In the natural world away from the laboratories, redundant genes are not really useless

Electric eyes

Transmitting images directly to the retina may one day help the blind 'see'

Liquor and liver

Slow, but sure

A gentle therapy for patients undergoing chemotherapy

Trapping pollutants

US scientists have developed a device that can capture air pollutants

No laughing matter

Who's dominating?

Genes of fathers and mothers play unequal roles during infancy, even in plants

Left or right?

How magnetic fields determine the 'handedness' of molecules

The dark side of the sun

No-alcohol exhaust

Failure of the baby-doll