BBC World Service - Science In Action

Tsetse Fly Genome

Scientists decode the genome of the fly that spreads sleeping sickness

Protein receptor discovered that enables egg to be 'unlocked' by sperm to fertilise

Japanese whaling ban; A robotic clam; Africa Engineering Prize; Computational psychiatry

The causes of major natural disasters such as mudslides and earthquakes

Scientists have synthesised the first designer chromosome in yeast

New evidence to support the Big Bang theory for the origin of the Universe

Research paper on cheap stem cell production withdrawn by scientists

Early American settlers may have used the Bering land bridge as a 10,000 year stopover

New research may begin to explain why more boys than girls have autism

A three year emergency plan to save Madagascar’s threatened lemurs