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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.
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…
France plans on banning petrol and diesel cars by 2040
France plans on outright banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 as part of Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “make the planet great again”. The country will also ban any “new project to use petrol, gas or coal”, by that date. Nicolas…
Chile and other countries in Latin America pressing ahead with renewable energy sources
Chile, along with other Latin American countries, is pressing ahead with ambitious plans to shift its electricity supply away from fossil fuels toward greater use of renewable energy sources. So concludes a new report from Infiniti Research…
2-D magnet discovered by scientists
A 2-D magnet has been discovered by scientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the University of Washington, both in the United States. They have, for the first time, discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers,…
Server heat from data centres to provide hot water in Dutch homes
An innovative plan to cut data centre running costs and domestic energy bills by using "server heat" to provide homes with hot water is about to launch in the Netherlands. The first 42 households to join the scheme - which starts in August…