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12-Nov-08

Farmers should be paid to protect 'carbon banks', says National Trust

"Hill farmers to be given financial incentive to conserve peatlands, Britain's biggest carbon store"

Category: Climate Change

12-Nov-08

Farewell to Phoenix

"Nasa's Martian probe has come to a dark and frigid end, but its dying gasp was 'triumph'"

Category: Space, Robotics

12-Nov-08

'Super-microscope' opens at Isis

The world's newest "super microscope" is fired up and ready to go. The £200m second target station at Isis in Oxfordshire will allow scientists to see things 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.

Category: Big Science

11-Nov-08

Dutch city kept warm by hot-water mines

"Heerlen, in the southern province of Limburg, has created the first geothermal power station in the world using water heated naturally in the deep shafts of old coalmines "

Category: Energy sources

11-Nov-08

The pitfalls of biometric systems

"How easily do biometric ID systems fall down, and can they be fooled completely? In the second part of his look at biometric security, Dan Simmons asks if being unique is enough to keep us safe."

Category: Communications

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