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This Market Business News category includes all of our articles that are related to science or the environment. This includes research projects in science and events that have an impact on the environment (be it beneficial or detrimental). This page is where you will find information on what is happening in the renewable energy industry, news to do with the electric or hybrid vehicle market, and information about electricity consumption, etc.
Blue whale skeleton Hope replaces Dippy, Natural History Museum
The giant skeleton of a blue whale called Hope, replacing Dippy the Diplodocus, is now on permanent display in Hintze Hall at London's Natural History Museum. Many natural history lovers will miss Dippy; however, it was a replica, while the…
Giant sunspot 75,000 miles across on Sun surface
A giant sunspot, estimated to be 75,000 across, has been detected by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which orbits Earth and has been observing the Sun for the past seven years. NASA scientists warn that this giant sunspot, called AR2665,…
Massive iceberg splits from Antarctic ice shelf
An iceberg approximately one-quarter the size of Wales has split from Antarctica. A one-billion-ton iceberg broke off from a region called Larsen C Ice Shelf between July 10 and July 12, according to scientists. Professor Adrian Luckman,…
Bacterial DNA stores movie in scientific breakthrough
Scientists have managed to replay a movie encoded in bacterial DNA for the first time. The researchers encoded the primitive film in bacterial DNA and then replayed it, in what the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) describes as a major…
Huge sunspot could produce solar flare and knock out satellites
A huge sunspot that appeared on the Sun's surface could be dangerous, scientists warn - it could produce a solar flare capable of damaging our artificial satellites. We use satellites for many purposes - there are military and Earth…
Alien ice forms ultra-rapidly on Earth
A team of American scientists has discovered on Earth how dense, alien ice can transform from water within just a few billionths of a second. For the first time, researchers have captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a…
James Webb Space Telescope undergoes final tests
The James Web Space Telescope (JWST), the world's largest space telescope, is to undergo final tests inside Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, to make sure it functions properly in outer space. The James Webb Space…
Sixth mass extinction currently underway say scientists
The sixth mass extinction is currently underway, say scientists from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Stanford University. A biological annihilation of fauna over the past few decades means that we are in the middle of…
U.K. guidance on date and advice labels redrafted to tackle food waste
In a bid to reduce food waste, guidance to food businesses on how food labels should display dates and give advice to shoppers in the United Kingdom about storing and freezing have been redrafted. The Waste and Resources Action Programme…
Martian surface dangerously toxic for human life, scientists warn
The Martian surface may be much more toxic for human life than previously thought, a team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh warns after carrying out a series of experiments. They have investigated the behaviour of…