The British Geological Survey today published a new risk list of elements showing how worried we should be about the supply of 52 elements which are important for modern life. Of particular importance are the rare earth elements. Many are important for high technology products ranging from mobile phones to wind turbines.

Researchers at the University of Bradford, looking into the emotional reasons why people overeat, could find the key to tackling obesity nationwide.

Is the 90-year-old lie detecting technology of the polygraph on the way out at last?

1989: The Berlin Wall fell, Chinese students revolted on Tiananmen Square, Harry met Sally, Jason and Kylie stormed the UK charts and a steady decline in the uptake of physics spread across 16+ students in UK schools that has yet to be reversed.

The Green at the University of Bradford looks like just another of the student villages springing up on UK campuses. But it has broken the world record for environmental design.

Scientists at the University of York are engineering plants to clean up land and water contaminated by explosives on military firing ranges.

Speakers responsible for detecting drug cheating at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games told the Festival on Monday that these will be the riskiest games ever for the dishonest athlete.

The English public are hostile to a minimum price for alcoholic drinks based on the amount of alcohol they contain, a reform regarded by experts as one of the most effective ways of attacking alcohol abuse.

Soil forensics are increasingly important in solving crimes, according to a soil scientist from the James Hutton Institute in Scotland speaking today at the British Science Festival in Bradford.

Might vitamin B be an unexpected secret weapon against Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia?

A tidal wave of scepticism is set to sweep the UK after today's launch of the Ask for Evidence campaign by charity Sense about Science.

Scientists are to spray tap water from a helium balloon tethered a kilometre above north Norfolk later this year. They aim to test the technology of 'geo-engineering', which may be used to reduce global temperatures in future decades.

Delegates at the British Science Festival will be able to see what may be the earliest surviving photograph, taken not by accepted pioneers such as Daguerre or Fox Talbot, but by members of the Lunar Society, the scientific fellowship that met in late 18th century Birmingham on the night of the Full Moon.

Food wastes could provide valuable low-carbon chemicals and energy for countries around the world including the UK, says a scientist from the University of York at the British Science Festival today.

A study of the effects of Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME), or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, at the University of Bristol has estimated the loss of earnings for UK sufferers at 102 million pounds per year.

You may think that DNA is the stuff in our genome that tells our bodies what protein to make. But in fact, only 2 per cent of the human genome does this. Dr Alasdair MacKenzie of the University of Aberdeen told the British Science Festival on Wednesday that we are closing in on what some of the rest of our DNA does.

Dame Ellen MacArthur said at the British Science Festival that she plans to change the way we make, use and buy things, along with the way we innovate new products and educate people at school and university.

Would you buy a cast-off suit that told you its life story? One person who might is Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith of University College, London.

'We are on the verge of finding out what dark matter is', Professor Carlos Frenk told the British Science Festival in Bradford. 'Either dark matter will be discovered, or our model of the universe is not quite right.'

Steve Haake of Sheffield Hallam University told the British Science Festival on Thursday that the London Olympics could end with no new world records in the swimming pool.

British school children will be getting closer to the IT cutting edge under an initiative announced on Thursday at the British Science Festival by universities and science minister David Willetts.

Scientists have found wide variations in the symmetry of communication pathways between left and right brain hemispheres. The differences could relate to mental illness and gender differences.

Frankenstein's monster was famously brought to life by massive electric shocks. Now researchers have found that milder levels of electrical excitation of the brain can increase the speed at which people learn a game.

The carbon trapped in diamonds that formed deep beneath the Earth's surface brings new insight into how the planet works, geologists told the British Science Festival in Bradford today.

Lord Winston, former president of the British Science Association, called for a new understanding between scientists and the public at the British Science Festival today.