September 5, 2010
- A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts are set to launch a dummy 30km into the sky as part of their quest to develop a private launch system.
- The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects - a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987.
September 3, 2010
- Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
- Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
- New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.
- The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.
- Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.
- BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone.
September 2, 2010
- Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone hole.