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16,806 articles from BBC Science/Nature

• MONDAY 20. APRIL, 2009
• 17:16 Scientist Hawking ill in hospital

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  Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's leading scientists, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University says.  

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• 15:22 Great Wall of China 'even longer'

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  The Great Wall of China is even longer than once thought, after the first detailed government study to establish its length.  

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• 15:20 Rocky clues from dirty dead stars

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  A survey of dead stars finds that many are probably surrounded by the rocky remains of asteroids and planets.  

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• 13:11 Following the Bronze Age DNA trail from the Mediterranean to Wales

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  Researchers hope to use DNA to prove Mediterranean workers came to find copper in north Wales in the Bronze Age.  

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• 13:09 Unsung heroes

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  Why local activists are showing us the way forward  

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• 13:07 Palestinian water crisis deepens

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  Bad management by the Palestinian Authority and restrictions by Israel have led to severe water shortages, says a World Bank report.  

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• 12:18 Garden impossible

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  How to grow trees in one of the driest places on Earth?  

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• 11:58 Mass hysteria

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  Nicaraguan 'madness virus' baffles science  

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• 06:43 Switch-on success for superscope

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  One of the world's most powerful telescope arrays, which will provide a new view of the Universe, gets under way.  

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• 02:28 Why human and planetary doctors are urging a return to the 1970s

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  Getting back to the slim, trim days of the 1970s would help to cut carbon emissions and tackle climate change, researchers say.  

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• SUNDAY 19. APRIL, 2009
• 19:02 Cancer brake 'could halt disease'

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  Genetic "brakes" which could slow down or stop diseases like MS and cancer are found by scientists in Edinburgh.  

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• 18:04 Goldman Prize 2009

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  In Pictures  

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• 17:57 'Green Nobel' for forest champion

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  A campaigner who fought a mining deal in the Gabonese rainforest receives a international environmental prize.  

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• SATURDAY 18. APRIL, 2009
• 18:14 Tasmania's wombat poo paper proves to be a hit

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  Paper made out of wombat droppings is helping a local industry in Tasmania to buck the economic trend, the BBC's Phil Mercer reports.  

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• 11:53 African aid 'needs science focus'

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  A leading physicist says aid to Africa needs to be focused on higher education, especially sciences.  

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• 11:52 Forests as carbon sinks 'at risk'

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  Forests' role as massive carbon sinks is "at risk of being lost entirely", a global assessment warns.  

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• 05:45 New limits to Antarctic tourism

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  Parties to the Antarctic Treaty adopt limits to tourism in the region, in a bid to protect the fragile ecosystem.  

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• FRIDAY 17. APRIL, 2009
• 18:24 Obama to regulate 'pollutant' CO2

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  The US government is to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, having decided they pose a danger to human health and well-being.  

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• 04:19 MI5 set to recruit science chief

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  MI5 is to appoint a chief scientific adviser, whose brief will include work on combating the terror threat, BBC News has learned.  

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• 04:00 The new Q?

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  It's not all ejector seats - MI5 seeks science chief  

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• 02:38 New model robots

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  Exhibition unveils the next generation of hi-tech help  

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• THURSDAY 16. APRIL, 2009
• 21:04 West Africa faces 'megadroughts'

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  Droughts lasting centuries occur regularly in West Africa, scientists find - and another one is coming, climate change or not.  

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• 20:07 Pandas opt for low-cal sweeteners

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  Red pandas have shown a preference for artificial sweeteners that has puzzled researchers.  

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• 16:58 Germans protest over pig patent

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  German pig farmers urge the EU to revoke the patent for a genetic method used to breed meatier pigs.  

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• 13:46 Plan to boost electric car sales

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  Motorists will be offered subsidies of up to £5,000 to encourage them to buy electric and hybrid cars under government plans.  

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