4,000 year-old Ashbrittle Yew, UK’s oldest tree, may be dying, says churchwarden
Britain’s oldest tree, a 4,000 year-old Ashbrittle Yew, which is also the oldest living organism in the country, could be dying, churchwarden of the...
Beautiful wild lynx closer to returning to the UK
The beautiful Eurasian wild lynx, which has been extinct in the UK for over 1,300 years, is now closer to making a comeback. Lynx...
Super strong mini robots climb walls carrying things 100 times their weight
A series of super strong mini robots has been created by Stanford University engineers that climb walls gecko-style carrying and pulling things 100 times...
Giant carbon release from Arctic as planet warms, scientists warn
Huge amounts of ancient carbon stored in Arctic permafrost are being transformed into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere because temperatures are rising,...
Integrity of climate change reports to be checked by international team
Have climate change reports exaggerated, making the global warming threat seem much worse than it really is? The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based...
Bees prefer pesticide-laced nectar like humans crave nicotine
Bees prefer pesticide-laced nectar, specifically neonicotinoid pesticides, which work on their brains in the same way nicotine does on humans, making them addicted, say...
Imagine watching movie Gravity on International Space Station – it happened
Imagine watching the movie Gravity at the International Space Station (ISS), when a load of debris comes your way and creates havoc. Well, that’s...
Cosmic tsunamis can bring ‘red and dead’ galaxies back to life
Galaxies that stopped forming stars a long time ago, known as ‘red and dead’ galaxies, can come back to life when clusters of galaxies...
Yellowstone supervolcano is colossal, after massive magma chamber discovered
A magma chamber 12 to 28 miles beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano shows it is 4.4 times more massive and vastly deeper than the one...
Mini robots climb walls like geckos and carry things 100 times their own weight
Stanford University scientists have created mini robots that can climb walls like a gecko and carry cargos more than 100 times their own weight. The...