Four closely spaced quasars found in space baffle scientists
Astronomers were amazed to find four closely spaced quasars embedded in a massive cloud of cool dense gas. They calculated the likelihood of such a...
Russian Proton-M rocket carrying Mexican satellite crashed shortly after launch
Another Russian rocket malfunctions, this time a Proton-M that was carrying a Mexican satellite. It malfunctioned shortly after liftoff on Saturday at the Russia-leased...
Butterfly numbers exploded in UK in early April
Butterfly numbers in the UK have ‘rocketed’, according to a report by The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), which put the record number for...
Sarah Brightman postpones space flight plans, cites personal family reasons
Sarah Brightman, the British classical crossover soprano, songwriter, actress, and dancer, has postponed her flight to the International Space Station that was scheduled to...
Dress colour confusion down to bluish and yellowish colouring
Why did some people see a blue and black dress while others saw it as white and gold? It was all down to the...
Flies are afraid, they experience fear, and thus have emotions – probably
Do flies have emotions? Scientists have found they display the typical signs of fear when exposed to an overhead shadow. Their response to visual...
First warm-blooded fish, the Opah, discovered by NOAA scientists
Until recently, everybody believed the only fully warm-blooded animals on Earth were birds and mammals. A new study has found that the Opah (Lampris...
Giant Antarctic ice shelf will disintegrate by 2020, NASA warns
A massive Antarctic ice shelf - Larsen B - is rapidly weakening and will probably disintegrate completely by 2020, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion...
Eat more insects, aim of new cookery kit created by student
Product design student Courtney Yule has created a cookery kit to encourage us to include insects in our daily dietary intake. Insects, like grasshoppers,...
Transition from dinosaur snout to bird beak recreated by scientists
Scientists have managed to replicate the molecular process that led to the first bird beaks from dinosaur snouts by using the fossil record as...