The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their work in advancing studies on the structure of ribsomes. Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath were awarded the prestigious prize on Wednesday. This year’s chemistry prize was awarded for studies into "one of life’s core processes: the [...]

Nasa says they have discovered an enormous ring around Saturn, which they say is "by far the largest of the planet’s many rings". The new halo is about twenty times the diameter of the planet in height, and it would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring. Nasa say the new [...]

The Nobel Prize for Physics 2009 has been awarded to the inventor of optical fibres and the two physicists behind the development of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD). Physicist Charles Kuen Kao, was responsible for the development of optical fibres while working at the Standard Telephones and Cables laboratories in Harlow, England. Mr Kao realised that [...]