Researchers have known for years that cutting calories can prolong life in everything from yeast cells to mammals. But an easier way to live longer may be as simple as turning a corkscrew.
Molecules found in red wine, peanuts and other products of the plant world have for the first time been shown to mimic the [...]

The universe will look quite different to astronomers after the launch on Monday of NASA’s latest satellite observatory, built to see objects either too cold to cast their own light or obscured by interstellar dust.
From failed stars that never turned on, to the galaxy’s own dust-shrouded heart, the Space Infra Red Telescope Facility will look [...]

Injecting magnetic nanoparticles into the bloodstream could reveal the precise location of viruses, with early trials pinpointing viruses in body fluids and tissue samples and human trials just a few years away.
The injected nanoparticles are coated with antibodies to a particular virus so that they form clumps wherever the virus is present.
The clumps [...]

SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand are set to transform information technology across the world thanks to pioneering research at Edinburgh University.
Scientists at the institution have just been awarded a £1.3 million grant to develop the “ubiquitous computing” technology which uses tiny semiconductor specks that can sense, compute and communicate without [...]

Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives.
Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet.
The service, the BBC Creative Archive, would be free and available to [...]