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.

Giant Salamander ancestor

Massive salamander prehistoric ancestor was top predator 200 million years ago

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A distant relative of today’s salamanders, a massive crocodile-like amphibian that existed during the rise of the dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, was...
Remnants

Huge explosion in the sky 345 years ago was a stellar collision, not a...

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In 1670, European astronomers saw a spectacular explosion in the sky, which the European Southern Observatory says was not a nova, but a much...
William Smith

‘The Map that Changed the World’ unearthed by an archivist 200 years later

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The first geological map of a country ever produced and previously thought lost has been uncovered by an archivist at The Geological Society of...
Boeing new patent

Boeing ‘force field’ as seen in Star Trek registered at US patent office

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The Boeing Company, the aerospace and defence giant, has obtained a patent for a Star Trek-style “force field” technology aimed at protecting military vehicles...
impact

Giant 400-km wide asteroid impact zone discovered in Australia

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An asteroid that broke in two moments before crashing into Earth created a 400 kilometre (248 mile) wide impact zone in Central Australia, researchers...
Mammoth painting

Woolly mammoth could make a comeback using cloning techniques, geneticists say

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After inserting 14 Woolly Mammoth genes into the DNA of a modern Asian Elephant, Harvard University geneticists say we are a step closer to...
Britons DNA makeup

Welsh are closest relatives to early settlers of Britain, DNA study shows

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The Welsh are genetically the most closely matched to the early settlers of Britain who started arriving about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago just...
Forests globally

Forests worldwide shrinking at an alarming rate

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Forests globally are shrinking at an alarming rate. Today, seventy percent of forest lands are within half-a-mile (1 km) of the forest edge, where...
Climate change adaptation

Adapting to climate change adds to repercussions, says new study

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Research should not focus just on the impact of climate change, but also how its effects may be exacerbated by the measures taken to adapt...
Woolly Mammoth painting

Cloning a woolly mammoth Jurassic Park style a step closer

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Scientists at Harvard University have inserted 14 woolly mammoth genes into the live DNA of a modern elephant, bringing them a step closer to...