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Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Panda poop contains bacteria that could help produce cheaper, more abundant biofuels

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Iron veins running through grains of magnesium allow fast and reversible uptake of enough H2 to power a car

Promising anode material for high-power lithium-ion batteries has lithium-ion diffusivity 400 times faster than in Si

Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

The nominees for the German Future Prize of the Federal President for Technology and Innovation have been announced

Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods

Rechargeable batteries in cars could give way to microporous polymer that is an unusually powerful supercapacitor