BBC World Service - Science In Action

19/07/2012

Touting for public funding online – scientists join the ranks of crowd-funded industries

Conflicting studies reveal that arsenic appears not to be fundamental to life

Particle found at CERN, is it the Higgs boson?

Doctors are developing a way of injecting oxygen directly into the blood of patients

Previously supressed work into how H5N1 could spread between humans is published.

Sequencing the genome of the bonobo, the ape that makes love not war

Siting part of SKA radio telescope in South Africa puts continent on scientific map.

The Transit of Venus will occur next week, the last time until 2117.

Researchers have developed a way to identify where fish were caught using a DNA sample.

A new catalogue of all the mutations of different breast cancers could improve treatment.