A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely stored in briny porous rock.

The European Commission is due today to unveil a wide-ranging vision of a common energy policy for the 27-country European Union.

A new, stunning image of the cosmic spider, the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings, finally pays tribute to this amazing, vast and intricately sculpted web of stars and gas. The newly released image, made with ESO's Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-m ESO/MPG Telescope at La Silla, covers 1 square degree on the sky and could therefore contain four times the full Moon.

The stars and gas which are seen in galaxies account for only a few percent of the gravitating material in the Universe.

Russian environmental control agency RosPrirodNadzor measures the environmental damage of Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Sakhalin Island. A full account of it will be ready in summer 2007.

Scientists at the University of Leicester are to gain a greater insight into the workings of the human mind through the study of a snail's brain.