SCIENCE

With memory of the widespread disruption last years ash cloud debacle caused British travellers still fresh and another similar cloud reported as on its way, budget airline easyJet's decision to invest in new ash cloud detection technology may well be proven right in the coming days.

Australian scientist Professor Alan Cowman from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne has been elected as a Fellow into Britain's Royal Society for his work on malaria.

Newly sworn in Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has expressed his desire for Scotland's energy be 100 percent renewable by the year 2020.

Research carried out by Hewlett Packard and the University of California Santa Barbara has taken bold strides, discovering several key lessons about memristors, a phenomenas widely considered to be integral in the development of the next generation of electronics.