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.

Praying Mantis study

Praying mantis jumps with incredible precision and total control

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The praying mantis is in total control during its jump, creating and manipulating angular momentum at spectacular speeds to guide its body for precise landings,...
British Spaceport drawing

Commercial space flights from UK spaceports by 2018, says Government

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The UK Government plans to have a British spaceport operational by 2018, with commercial space flights taking off and landing at prices starting at...
Ceres with two mysterious bright lights

Dawn probe about to orbit dwarf planet Ceres

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The Dawn probe, launched by NASA in 2007, is about to start orbiting Ceres, the dwarf planet made of ice and rock that lies...

Ethiopian jawbone find shows humans were around 2.8 million years ago

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An amazing fossil find in Ethiopia shows that the genus Homo was around 2.8 million years ago, which is 400,000 years earlier than scientists...
Simpsons

Homer Simpson discovered the Higgs boson during a mid-life crisis

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In 1998 during a mid-life crisis, when he realized that he would probably reach the end of his life without having achieved anything, Homer Simpson just...
fossil of earliest human

Fossil find places origin of humans at 2.8 million years ago

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The human genus Homo existed 2.8 million years ago, about 400,000 years earlier than previously thought, after a fossil of a lower jaw with...
Curiosity Rover

Mars Curiosity rover short circuits and will be inactive for several days, says NASA

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The Mars Curiosity rover had a short circuit on February 27th. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the vehicle followed its programmed response by...
Kew

Stop starving Kew Gardens and give it more autonomy, say MPs

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The Government should treat Kew Gardens, the world’s major botanical research and education institution, like it does the Natural History Museum, and stop playing...
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew

Kew Gardens let down by Government, unlike Natural History Museum, say MPs

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Kew Gardens has been let down by the Government, due to cuts and interference, unlike the Natural History Museum, say MPs on the Science...
Archaeological find Were Jaguar

City of the Monkey God discovered in Honduras, National Geographic reports

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A team of Honduran and American archaeologists, aided by a group of former British SAS soldiers, have discovered the legendary “City of the Monkey...