Chatty car

Fresh lease

All Silk

'Stick' to clean teeth

The much derided chewing stick has finally found a proponent

Solar sense

Backpack to the rescue

Stripping device

Quite a saving

Tracking Earth's movements

Hear it is

Striking lasers

A semiconductor laser would enhance the performance of telecommunications

Explosions in outer space

Gamma-ray bursts occur daily and are million times brighter than the galaxy

Powerful eye

Unlike orbiters

Taking the placenta route

Green kill

Small pump, big help

A nice, worm surprise

Who would have thought that the roundworm could ever shock the geneticists?

Complete dressing

Making organs

A new material might help make tissue for artificial organs

Stabilising mirrors

Steering water

Nepalese villagers upgrade water wheels to generate power

Spies on the skies

Unmanned aerial vehicles are the future of military reconnaissance

Inside view

A new technique will help see what even MRI scans cannot

If you have the inclination...

...scientists have the time. The exact time