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.

Basking Shark sighted

Basking sharks sighted in Scottish waters much earlier than usual

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Basking sharks do not usually appear in Scottish waters until the summer. However, Basking Shark Scotland reports ten different sightings over Easter of the...
corn husks

Hydrogen fuel from corn husks, a low emission breakthrough

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A cheap way of producing hydrogen fuel from abundantly-available corn stover – the stalks, cobs, and husks - has been discovered by scientists at...
Canadian glacier

Glaciers of Western Canada mostly gone by 2100, scientists warn

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The glaciers of Western Canada will be mostly gone by the end of this century, say University of British Columbia scientists. Seventy percent of...
Dwarf Dragon

Three new Dwarf Dragon species discovered in the Andes of Peru and Ecuador

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Three new species of Dwarf Dragons – dragonesque woodlizards – have been discovered in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. Dwarf Dragons, also known as...
eerie green cloud

Amazing green clouds of gas in deep space captured by Hubble Space Telescope

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Spectacular images of eight huge green clouds of gas around eight different active galaxies tens of thousands of light years from Earth have been...
Human chin

Chins are unique to humans because of cooking and softer food

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The chin is a unique human feature, other animals, including chimps and gorillas, do not have chins. The human chin evolved because we started...
Arachnophobia

Fear of spiders is in our genes – we are programmed that way

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Our fear of spiders – arachnophobia – has become part of our DNA as a product of human evolution since we first started walking...
Frustrated Magnet

Frustrated magnets and the Hall Effect

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Frustrated magnets are so called because they ought to be magnetic at low temperatures but aren’t. Scientists at Princeton University carried out an experiment...
UKIP

Farage set to lose his own South Thanet seat, say Tory newspapers

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Two Tory newspapers, the Telegraph and Mail, say Nigel Farage, head of the anti-EU party UKIP, is set to lose his South Thanet seat...
Spider

Arachnophobia is in our genes, a product of human evolution

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A new study suggests that arachnophobia – a fear of spiders – is in our genes, i.e. it has become part of our DNA...