Science / Environment / Energy

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.

Rainbow Cloud

Spectacular rainbow cloud photo taken by tourist in Jamaica

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A tourist took a spectacular photograph of a rainbow cloud, also called an iridescent cloud, while on vacation in Jamaica last week. The colors in...
Coywolf

The coywolf, a wolf-coyote-dog hybrid, is America’s top dog

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Over the past two centuries, the North American wolf has bred with the coyote, creating a fierce predator, which has also bred with large...
Bird beak and dino snout

Transition from dinosaur snout to bird beak recreated by scientists

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Scientists have managed to replicate the molecular process that led to the first bird beaks from dinosaur snouts by using the fossil record as...
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Galaxy 13 billion light years away unveiled by astronomers

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Astronomers have unveiled a super distant galaxy, called EGS-zs8-1. It is 13 billion light years from Earth, meaning they have peered into a time when...
Onion muscle

Gold-coated onions make super artificial muscle cells that bend and stretch

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Gold plated onions have been used to make artificial muscles that can bend or stretch when an electrical current is discharged, just like normal...
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Penis worm was a fearsome beast with a throat like a cheese grater

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Scientists have discovered a new species of Penis Worm, a fearsome penis-shaped beast that existed 500 million years ago. It could turn its mouth...
strange sound

Eerie sounds in stratosphere has people wondering about alien signals

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Eerie sounds picked up in the upper atmosphere have NASA scientists baffled, and thousands of people wondering whether it could be evidence of signals...

Strange whistling and hissing sound 22 miles above Earth baffles NASA

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Strange hissing and whistling sounds that have been picked up 22 miles above Earth by a NASA student balloon have left the US space...
Green Climate Fund

Make good on $10.2 billion pledges to Green Climate Fund, rich nations told

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Rich nations should make good on their pledges to deliver $10.2 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), said Federal Minister for Climate Change,...
Antarctica

Lakes under Antarctica desert may support life, so maybe life on Mars

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Under the dry valleys in Antarctica there are several interconnected lakes and brine-saturated sediments that could sustain life, and if so, dramatically increase the...