Plant genus named Sirdavidia after Sir David Attenborough by Gabonese and French botanists
In honour of Sir David Attenborough's influence on their lives and careers, Gabonese and French botanists have named a genus of flowering plants Sirdavidia. The...
Original part of one of the world’s first computers resurfaces in the USA
A rare original part of one of the world’s first computers – EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) – has resurfaced in the United...
Lewis Pugh to swim in freezing Antarctic in just Speedos in Ross Sea conservation...
Lewis Pugh, a maritime lawyer from London, plans to do five successive one kilometer swims in the Antarctic, where the water temperature will be...
Jupiter moon Europa’s life-seeking mission gets green light
The White House has proposed NASA receives $18.5 billion in 2016, which includes $30 million towards a mission to determine whether there is life...
One ton rodent with a bite like a tiger’s related to modern-day guinea pig
The largest fossil rodent ever found was an animal that weighed 1,000 kilograms, had huge front tusk-like teeth, and a bite as powerful as that...
Doubling distance of optical fibre communications with new technique
British scientists have managed to double the distance optical fiber communications can travel error free by eliminating the interactions between optical channels. This could...
Graphene means semi-transparent, flexible electronics is a real prospect
Thanks to graphene - the strongest and thinnest material currently known in science - semi-transparent, flexible electronics may no longer be just science fiction,...
What is Dark Matter? New fundamental particle may help
Nobody knows what Dark Matter is, even though 85% of the Universe’s mass is thought to be made up of it. Researchers from the...
Much of marine life threatened with extinction, warn scientists
Up to one quarter of all well-known marine species are today threatened with extinction, scientists at the University of Sheffield in England have warned....
Marine Conservation Zones public consultation launched by UK government
A public consultation has been launched by the Government for the next tranche of areas to become Marine Conservation Zones along the English coast. The...