New confinement state for plasma discovered in fusion energy quest
Scientists from Japan and the US have made a major discovery of a new plasma confinement state in the global race to achieve fusion...
Fusion energy production one step closer, says US-China team
Usable fusion energy production is still beyond our scientists, but we may be one step closer, says a US-China research team. They say the...
Sharks will be smaller and poorer hunters, due to climate change, says study
Sharks will be significantly smaller and lousy hunters by the end of this century because of higher carbon dioxide levels and warmer oceans, a...
Oldest known stars discovered, dating to when Universe was a baby
Scientists have discovered the oldest known stars ever to be detected – they used to exist when the Universe was just a 300 million...
UK facing 3 months of storms and plunging temperatures, Met Office warns
Britain is facing 3 months of storms with strong winds, heavy rains, and plummeting temperatures, says a Met Office report intended just for local council...
Disaster for British coast unless action taken now, warns National Trust
The British coast is facing a disastrous future unless urgent action is taken now by the Government and agencies, the National Trust is warning....
Incredible porous liquid may have carbon capture use, say Belfast scientists
An incredible porous liquid has been created by scientists at Queen’s University Belfast and other research centres, which they claim has the potential for...
Cockroaches have super jaws five times stronger than humans
Cockroaches have incredibly strong jaws that in relative terms are about five times stronger than the force human beings can generate from their jaws....
Earth-sized exoplanet discovered ‘next door’, galactically speaking
Scientists have discovered the closest Earth-sized exoplanet so far – just 39 light-years from our planet, GJ 1132b is a rocky world like ours,...
Solar system’s most distant object, 103 times further from Sun than Earth, spotted
Scientists have detected our Solar System's most distant object even seen, a frigid world very far away – 103 times further from the Sun...