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 News 'Immune' Tasmanian devil dies of cancerThursday, 2 September 2010
Australian researchers mourned the death of Cedric, a Tasmanian devil thought at first to be immune to a devastating cancer which is threatening to wipe out the species.  Stocky dragons once ruled TransylvaniaWednesday, 1 September 2010
The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.  Review calls for U.N. climate panel reformTuesday, 31 August 2010
An international review panel called on the U.N. global climate change body to carry out several reforms after embarrassing errors in a 2007 landmark report dented its credibility.  12,000-year-old tortoise banquet unearthedTuesday, 31 August 2010
Evidence at an ancient burial site in Israel shows that community feasts were probably a common occurrence among early humans, possibly even predating the advent of agriculture, according to a recent study.  First gene link to common migraine foundMonday, 30 August 2010
Gene detectives announced they had found the first inherited link to common types of migraine, a finding that boosts hopes for new drugs to curb this painful and costly disorder.  Ant genomes sequenced for the first timeMonday, 30 August 2010
The entire genome sequences of two different species of ants have been mapped for the first time, said U.S. scientists, potentially providing insight into human aging and behaviour.  Quiet Sun leads to upper atmosphere collapseFriday, 27 August 2010
The upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere are unexpectedly shrinking and cooling due to lower ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, U.S. scientists said.  Pea-sized frog the smallest in AsiaThursday, 26 August 2010
Asia's tiniest frog, a creature the size of a pea, has been discovered in a national park in Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo island, researchers announced.  Black holes formed soon after Big BangThursday, 26 August 2010
The first supermassive black holes formed just a billion years after the Big Bang, showing that big structures build up quickly in the universe, scientists said.  Analysis: biologists slam kin selection hereticsThursday, 26 August 2010
On the hallowed cover of this week's edition of Nature is a paper destined to reignite the flames of a fiery debate that has troubled every generation of biologists since Charles Darwin.  Kin selection is dead, says E.O. WilsonThursday, 26 August 2010
Eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson is trying to bring about the demise of the theory of kin selection, which has formed the foundation of the study of sociobiology since the 1960s.  Spinning stars act like cosmic GPSWednesday, 25 August 2010
A new technique for calculating the weight of unknown planets has been invented by an international team of astronomers.  Richest planetary system discoveredWednesday, 25 August 2010
A distant star orbited by at least five planets has been found, according to European astronomers, in the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago.  U.S. court halts funding of stem cell researchTuesday, 24 August 2010
A court issued a temporary halt to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research which U.S. President Barack Obama had authorised, saying it involved the destruction of human embryos.  This cancer cure will make you sickMonday, 23 August 2010
Treating tumours with Salmonella bacteria induces an immune response that effectively kills cancer cells, Italian scientists announced. 
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