New ice grows faster but is also more vulnerable to weather and wind
New material uses carbon dioxide from the air to repair and reinforce itself
Apparent presence of scandium, vanadium and yttrium less than three light years from black hole 'an optical illusion'
Revealing behaviours that may help explain how spinning neutron stars - pulsars - emit gamma-ray and radio pulses
Dealing with excess heat is essential to prevent fusion reactors from meltdown
Hubble Telescope put into 'safe mode' on Friday following the failure of the gyroscope
Technique will provide a cost-effective method to fabricate flexible, wearable electronics
By 2300, sea levels could have risen by more than four metres
Mystery over a 'blaze of glory' witnessed from Earth more than 300 years ago now solved
Voyager 2, launched in 1977, will soon find out what the Solar System is like in, and beyond, the heliosphere