God really doesn't want it to work

Coconut shell charcoal is the key to what could become the first commercially viable Tokamak fusion power electrical generating facility.

Researchers at Stanford University have  transformed human embryonic stem cells into germ cells that they believe are so perfect that they could be grown into fully-functioning sperm and eggs.

In an attempt to persuade students that science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) aren't actually that dull, six Massachusetts institutions have launched a mentoring program.

There's a built-in stop-watch in the brain, according to MIT neuroscientists.

Humble salt crystals could hold the key to improved data storage, but have until now been very hard to to create with enough accuracy.

A massive basin off the coast of India could be the world's largest, multi-ringed crater - and the impact that caused it could have been the real cause of the mass dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, say researchers.

Kelloggs is considering etching its logo onto individual cornflakes to protect its brand from imitators.

A couple of scientists reckon that God or time travellers broke the Large Hadron Collider. The duo, who are, remarkably, still walking the streets, have published a paper claiming that the world’s largest particle accelerator, which failed a week after being switched on last September could have been broken by divine intervention or time agents from the future.

US scientists have come up with a battery which, if it goes wrong, will probably be a bit more annoying than replacing one in an iPhone.

An Italian scientist has successfully reproduced the Shroud of Turin and claims that he didn't need the Son of God or a miracle to do it.

So much more fun than next week's boring Swedish version, the winners of the Ig Nobel prizes were announced last night.

Subliminal messaging works best if it's scary, according to a team at University College London (UCL).

Engineers and artists at the University of Washington's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory have developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer.