The new technique could help amateur naturalists and professional field workers in the front line of monitoring decades of decline in Britain's native bumblebees.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast | Saving Bees

The technique employed to find the new planet uses the gravitational field of a star like a lens - magnifying the light from a distant background star.

BBC: Tiniest extrasolar planet found

Each year someone comes up with a new technique to remember more stuff more quickly, forcing the rest of the field to play catch up.

CNN: How to train your mind to remember anything