For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the individual scientist toiling alone in his own laboratory or at his own desk?

Are we close to tackling time travel? How does water from the Welsh hills make it from source to bottle and why can a cancer-related gene help prevent some forms of the disease?

Bristol Science City launched today with support for a range of fun events, lectures and demonstrations celebrating the city’s world-class scientific research and innovation.

Discover all about galaxies and symmetry, genetics and the environment - and much more - as we select the highlights from Science Week 2008 events in Oxfordshire.

Latest data and follow-on projects bring successful strategies used by the Model Institutions for Excellence to other institutions

The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research.

New research from scientists in Britain and Switzerland has again challenged the view of other researchers who say global warming is not man-made.