An Israeli inventor has developed a robot which is producing 500 heads of lettuce per day in a space measuring 12 by 2.5 metres. For the first time ever, Dutch scientists have made an atomic-scale electrical device based on a single molecule. It has many interesting properties that make it an exciting candidate for new materials in the future. We spoke to to one of their scientific consultants. The XMM is the largest satellite ever built in Europe and is the world's most sensitive X-ray observatory.
Dutch scientists are behind one of the instruments on board .
Dr Anne Cutler, a Professor at the University of Nijmegen, has won the prestigious Spinoza Prize for scientific excellence for her work in the field of speech recognition. Along parts of the British coast are ancient reminders of dinosaurs. Their footprints are preserved for ever in stone slabs that line the shore. These tracks are teaching scientists a lot about dinosaur behaviour. Just like people, plant cells get fevers when they're fighting disease.