Poor Pluto. First it gets kicked out of the planet club, now it can no longer claim to be the coldest place in the solar system. Dark craters near the moon's south pole have snatched that title – which is good news for the prospects of finding water ice on Earth's companion.
Since September 11 2001, the volumes of information collected by counter terrorism and law enforcement agencies, and countless organisations on their behalf, has grown by several orders of magnitude.
Cloud computing may be the hot topic of the moment, but what about the services that are available today? Steve Gold did his homework and discovered a world of options that are available...
Implants in the brains of people with neurological disorders could help in developing treatments for people with Parkinson's disease, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.
Predicting how rumours and epidemics percolate through populations, or how traffic jams spread through city streets, are network analyst Jian-Wei Wang's bread and butter. But his latest findings are likely to spark worries in the US: he's worked out how attackers could cause a cascade of network failures in the US's west-coast electricity grid - cutting power to economic powerhouses Silicon Valley and Hollywood.