Goldilocks planet GJ 581d does exist, your method was flawed, say UK scientists Marie Singer Mar 10, 2015 0 There is a planet 20 light years away in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ that scientists refer to as GJ 581d. In 2014,…
Experience Coral Reefs in a spectacular virtual dive at London’s Natural History… Marie Singer Mar 9, 2015 0 Visitors can experience a spectacular Coral Reef virtual dive at the Natural History Museum in London, starting on…
Pollution video banished by Chinese censors after 200m people watched it Marie Singer Mar 8, 2015 0 An online documentary exposing the serious harms to human health of severe pollution in China, and how…
Dawn orbits dwarf planet Ceres marking space exploration milestone Marie Singer Mar 6, 2015 0 NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is now in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, marking a milestone in space exploration. It…
Drinking cocktails in space now possible, says Californian company Marie Singer Mar 6, 2015 0 Drinking cocktails in space using a fancy glass will soon be possible, a Californian company, Cosmic Lifestyle…
Ethiopian jawbone find shows humans were around 2.8 million years ago Marie Singer Mar 5, 2015 0 An amazing fossil find in Ethiopia shows that the genus Homo was around 2.8 million years ago, which is 400,000…
Stop starving Kew Gardens and give it more autonomy, say MPs Marie Singer Mar 4, 2015 0 The Government should treat Kew Gardens, the world’s major botanical research and education institution, like it…
Homer Simpson solved Higgs boson mystery during mid-life crisis in 1998 Marie Singer Mar 3, 2015 0 During a mid-life crisis in 1998, Homer Simpson nearly solved the Higgs boson equation, fourteen years before…
Body found at Richard III excavation was an elderly woman Marie Singer Mar 2, 2015 0 Within the mysterious lead coffin at the former hastily-dug grave of King Richard III was an elderly woman,…
Global warming’s stationary trend set to end as Pacific warms up again Marie Singer Mar 1, 2015 0 Global warming’s stationary trend, which was reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) two…
Eclipse of the Sun has European solar power producers worried Marie Singer Feb 28, 2015 0 Hundreds of millions of Europeans will experience a solar eclipse ranging from 40% to 97% obscuration on March…
Blue-rayed limpet holds secret for windscreen transparent displays with no… Marie Singer Feb 27, 2015 0 A tiny mollusk, the blue-rayed limpet, has natural optical structures which could be used for transparent displays…
Two bright alien objects on Ceres dwarf planet have scientists mystified Marie Singer Feb 26, 2015 0 A photograph from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows two mysterious bright objects on the surface of the dwarf planet…
Bionic hand connects directly with the brain “nearly like the real… Marie Singer Feb 25, 2015 0 An incredible bionic hand could give people who have lost limbs new hands “nearly like the real thing”, says a…
Carnivorous bladderwort has a tiny genome but loads of genes, scientists mystified Marie Singer Feb 24, 2015 0 The carnivorous bladderwort, a plant, has a tiny genome, only 80 million base pairs of DNA, six times fewer than a…
Giant sinkhole in Naples sparks evacuation of nearly 400 residents Marie Singer Feb 23, 2015 0 A huge 10 metre (33 ft) deep sinkhole has appeared in a suburb of Naples, Italy, following a water pipe that broke,…