NASA is extending the international Cassini-Huygens mission by two years. The historic spacecraft's stunning discoveries and images have revolutionized our knowledge of Saturn and its moons. UK researchers have played key roles in the mission instruments and the scientific discoveries.

Sleeping sickness creates a metabolic 'fingerprint' in the blood and urine, which could enable a new test to be developed to diagnose the disease, according to new research published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Philanthropists Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham are creating a second climate change research centre in London, following their donation of £12 million to Imperial College in 2007 to establish the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, it was announced today.

School children turned detective today at Imperial College London, putting their science skills to the test to solve a fictional crime.

Closing schools in the event of a flu pandemic could slow the spread of the virus and prevent up to one in seven cases, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature.

A new campaign to help fund trainee doctors in Malawi was launched by a medical graduate of Imperial College London.

The latest sensing technology which could propel UK athletes to Olympic glory was demonstrated to Science Museum visitors this week by Imperial College London researchers.

Imperial's Nobel Conversations series kicked off this week with a lively and engaging discussion with Professor Hartmut Michel from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for being the first person to grow crystals from membrane proteins.

An Imperial biologist has been announced as the fourth College scientist since 2000 to win the Zoological Society of London's prestigious Scientific Medal.

A genetic study of diabetes by scientists from Imperial College has been named as one of the hottest research papers of 2007.

'Mother cells' which produce the neurons affected by Parkinson's disease have been identified by scientists, according to new research published in the journal Glia.

The relationship between a thin liquid film or drop of liquid and the shape of the surface that it wets is explained with a new simplified mathematical formula published this week in Physical Review Letters.