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.

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SpaceX launches two all-electric satellites on Falcon 9 rocket

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SpaceX launched two all-electric satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket, which launched successfully on Saturday. The huge booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air...
Homer Simpson Higgs Boson equation

Homer Simpson wrote Higgs Boson equation 14 years before scientists did

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Fictional character Homer Simpson was super close to predicting the Higgs boson (Higgs particle), an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics,...
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Svalbard Doomsday Vault receiving thousands of seeds this week

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The first delivery of forest tree species seeds have been accepted by the Svalbard Doomsday Vault, a secure seed bank on the island of...
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Body found at Richard III excavation was an elderly woman

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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...
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Dogs helped modern humans beat Neanderthals 40000 years ago

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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,...
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Emperor penguins survived last ice age in the Ross Sea

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In the last ice age, only three populations of emperor penguins are thought to have survived, one of them in the Ross Sea in...
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Solar eclipse across whole of UK on March 20th, and continental Europe

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The UK will see a solar eclipse with obscuration (darkness) ranging from 97% in the north to 85% in the south. The Moon will...
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Global warming’s stationary trend set to end as Pacific warms up again

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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...
Met Office

Sunniest winter on record, following last year’s wettest, UK

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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...
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Eclipse of the Sun has European solar power producers worried

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Hundreds of millions of Europeans will experience a solar eclipse ranging from 40% to 97% obscuration on March 20th. Iceland will have a total...