More nanotube ideas! Researchers at the University of Illinois now say the tiny tubes can be used to target specific DNA sequences. There’s a slew of potential uses for this application, from detection of hazardous agents to forensic science.

No, nothing to do with MTV. A little speculative news story about a plausible economic revolution in 2030, based on the ideas of Gandhi and Buckminster Fuller.

Astronomer Margaret Turnbull of the Carnegie Institution has released a ‘top 10’ list of potential inhabitable star systems. These are the systems deemed most likely to harbour Earth-like planets.

Atop a volcano in Mexico’s Sierra Negra, the biggest telescope of its kind nears completion. A joint project between the US and Mexico, the Pentagon funding has caused a few raised eyebrows, but scientists are keen to point out that the device will have no military uses.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a cluster of colliding galaxies that appear to be surrounded by tiny glass-like crystals.