Transatlantic Live Brain Surgery to Be Beamed to UK
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It's not for the squeamish but Britons  with a strong constitution will get a rare opportunity to view  brain surgery as it happens, in an operating room 4,000 miles  away in the United States.
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â¬10bn funding could bring two hour London-Sydney flights The European Union (EU) has agreed further funding for a European civil hypersonics project whose goal is to achieve passenger flights from Brussels to Sydney in "two to four hours", at speeds of Mach 4 to 8. The now-retired Concorde was capable of only a little better than Mach 2.â¦
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Science & environment: British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts
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Â· Surgeon to inject tissue during bypass operation  Â· Charity grant funds trial to combat UK's biggest killer
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Science & environment: British scientists led by Robert Winston, who are working on growing replacement organs in genetically-modified farm animals, have moved their work to the US.
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Australia or South Africa will get to host the Square Kilometre Array, a giant next-generation radio telescope.
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Military aspects remain to be settled Controversial Euro satnav project Galileo should receive more taxpayer cash to get it moving again, European ministers have concluded. But lengthy wrangles over funding channels and control lie ahead.â¦
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An experimental treatment for brain cancer has won approval for commercial use in Switzerland, its London-listed US maker, Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc., announced on Monday.
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Science & environment: A team of surgeons and engineers have been awarded Â£2.1m to build a sophisticated surgical robots
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Experts are set to make a significant announcement on the future of stem cell research  in Scotland.
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Work by British scientists could mean people paralysed by spinal injuries may one day be able to walk again.
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The United States and the European  Union are close to signing an agreement that would allow their  satellite navigation systems to work together to provide more  accurate images and information.
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The future of one of Europe's scientific "crown jewels" may be hit by current funding concerns in UK physics.
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Europe hopes finally to get its space station laboratory, Columbus, into orbit this Thursday.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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Americans with prostate cancer are traveling abroad for a treatment that is not approved in the United States.
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The UK is set to launch its first Skynet 5 spacecraft, a key  component in its next-generation military satellite communications system.