Homer Simpson wrote Higgs Boson equation 14 years before scientists did
Fictional character Homer Simpson was super close to predicting the Higgs boson (Higgs particle), an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics,...
Svalbard Doomsday Vault receiving thousands of seeds this week
The first delivery of forest tree species seeds have been accepted by the Svalbard Doomsday Vault, a secure seed bank on the island of...
Body found at Richard III excavation was an elderly woman
Within the mysterious lead coffin at the former hastily-dug grave of King Richard III was an elderly woman, probably of high socioeconomic or religious...
Dogs helped modern humans beat Neanderthals 40000 years ago
Dogs bred from wolves helped modern humans vanquish local Neanderthals 40,000 years ago from Europe, says Professor Pat Shipman, an anthropologist from Penn State,...
Emperor penguins survived last ice age in the Ross Sea
In the last ice age, only three populations of emperor penguins are thought to have survived, one of them in the Ross Sea in...
Solar eclipse across whole of UK on March 20th, and continental Europe
The UK will see a solar eclipse with obscuration (darkness) ranging from 97% in the north to 85% in the south. The Moon will...
Global warming’s stationary trend set to end as Pacific warms up again
Global warming’s stationary trend, which was reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) two years ago, is set to end, as the...
Sunniest winter on record, following last year’s wettest, UK
This winter is set to become the sunniest since records began in 1929, in contrast to last year’s, which was the wettest ever, according...
Eclipse of the Sun has European solar power producers worried
Hundreds of millions of Europeans will experience a solar eclipse ranging from 40% to 97% obscuration on March 20th. Iceland will have a total...
Methane levels spiked in Mars, raising prospect of life on the Red Planet
The Curiosity robot’s tunable laser spectrometer in the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) has unequivocally detected an episodic spike in methane concentrations in the...