Camera-shy badgers take peanut butter bait

Wildlife photographer Richard Costin got through ten jars of the spread luring the nocturnal animals for a perfect close-up

English Heritage seeks Darwin’s lost notes

Thoughts and sketches from Galapagos that disappeared in the 1980s are the missing link as Darwin's documents go online

Giant ancient crocodiles found in Sahara

Discovery by scientists in Africa sheds light on why giant reptiles survived while the dinasours became extinct

Brain-eating tribe helps mad cow research

A gene mutation found in the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea could lead to developments in treatment for mad cow disease

‘Nations will vanish'

Rise in sea levels of 1.4m would result in loss of entire nations and displacement of up to ten per cent of the world's population

Major cities at risk from rising sea level threat

Sea levels will rise by twice as much as previously predicted as a result of global warming, new international study concludes

The poor island nations need help quickly

The Alliance of Small Islands needs protection urgently if they are not to start sinking due to climate change

Carbon 'must be sucked from the atmosphere'

Drastic cuts in emissions may not be sufficient to avoid the worst of global warming, says IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri

World-first stem cell therapy for eye disease

Trials for treatment of Stargardt's disease to begin in spring if world's first embryonic stem cell therapy is approved

Privacy fears as DNA testing firm goes bust

DNA profiles belonging to thousands of people who paid for gene tests are to be transferred to a venture capital group

The Get Out of Jail Free gene

The sentence of one killer in Italy has been reduced as he possesses a ‘violent gene’. Can DNA be used as a defence?

Race and genetics in court

Scientific research seems to show that some racial groups possess the low-activity MAO-A ‘warrior gene’. Is it admissible in court?

Beauty really is skin deep, say scientists

Scientists have found that the evenness and radiance of a woman’s skin is the key factor people use in judging beauty

Tissue grown to reverse genital damage

Scientists have replaced the erectile tissue of rabbits restoring sexual function and allowing them to father offspring

Older and wiser: making age count

Understanding and predicting longevity are vital if we are to manage the implications of greater life expectancy

Eureka: Life, the Universe and everything

In issue two of Eureka, Bill Bryson tries to get his head around the LHC and we delve into robot surgery and longevity

Unlocking the cruellest prison

New research is giving hope to people such as the man who spent 23 years ‘locked’ in his body and unable to communicate

‘Bionic eye’ allows blind man to read again

Doctors at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital stunned by the results of a trial using a camera that sends signals to the brain

Boots defends marketing of homeopathy as effective

Chief pharmacist at Boots said responsibility to regulate marketing of homeopathic products lay with UK drug regulator

Mint tea 'as effective as aspirin' scientists find

Research showed the herb known as Brazilian mint reduced pain as much as a soluble form of the conventional painkiller.

CERN 'a threat' to nuclear energy research

Physicists fear that costs of Hadron Collider experiments could leave programme for new power stations in disarray

Huge experiment to look at elusive neutrinos

A scientific project in Japan is investigating a fundamental particle called the neutrino, about which much is unknown

Big Bang machine in double proton beam advance

Beams of protons are circulating in both directions around the Large Hadron Collider for the first time

Large Hadron Collider back in action

Engineers at the CERN particle physics laboratory to fire up 'big bang machine' more than a year after it was shut down

Doctor to argue freedom of speech defence

A heart doctor being sued for criticising a US company’s research says scientists must be free to challenge such work

Johnson accused as three more scientists quit

Home Secretary accused of 'political expediency' in his use of scientific advice as fallout grows from sacking of adviser

Advisers have a right to speak plainly

Ministers must think twice before commissioning opinions they have no intention of heeding and then shooting the messenger

Cloning pioneer convicted over stem cell lies

Hwang Woo-suk, the scientist who led the world in pioneering human cloning, found guilty of faking stem cell research

Nasa finds enough water for man on Moon to have bath

Nasa's lunar probe makes the discovery after being deliberately crashed into moon and making a new crater on the surface

Astronomers discover cosmic nurseries for stars

Findings in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society give a unique insight into the birth of our own galaxy

Book a room in space - the tariff: £2.7 million

Tourists are said to be queuing up to enjoy a three-night stay in a hotel a Spanish company plans to build high above Earth

The ultimate question about the big bang

A science experiment is under way again that may teach us how the Universe began or blow up the planet!