The need for energy that does not come from oil, equality between the sexes and more spending on education are just some of the things people have requested using the Parliament's choice boxes. more »
This week marks the launch of the tenth Interest Rate Challenge, the competition designed to give 16 to 18 year old students across the UK the opportunity to take on the role of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and set monetary policy for the UK to meet the inflation target of 2.0%. more »
One California company unveiled a solution - a prototype energy station that swaps electric vehicles' empty batteries for fully charged ones. more »
NASA officials have confirmed that the space shuttle Atlantis was hit by a piece of debris that nicked part of its heat shield. more »
Atlantis carried a seven-member crew that was scheduled to perform five spacewalks to install and repair instruments and replace positioning gyroscopes on the telescope, which orbits 350 miles above Earth. more »
Artificial grass maker Ten Cate is developing an intelligent pitch in the Netherlands. more »
Russian scientist Olga Speranskaya has taken on one very tough job - to help clean up the vast network of toxic chemical sites in the former Soviet states. more »
European politicians will be visiting schools around Europe as part of ‘spring day’ 2009. more »
The current experiments show a subject an image and then reconstruct that image based on scans of the brain's visual cortex. more »
The children of people who come to live in Europe will have to learn the language of the country they enter from pre-school age. more »
Atlantis carried a seven-member crew that was scheduled to perform five spacewalks to install and repair instruments and replace positioning gyroscopes on the telescope, which orbits 350 miles above Earth.
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