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.

Turing notes

Alan Turing codebreaking notes used to stop draughts in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park

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Top-secret documents belonging to Alan Turing, best-known for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in World War II, have been found...
Sir David Attenborough has plant named after him

Plant genus named Sirdavidia after Sir David Attenborough by Gabonese and French botanists

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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...
National Museum of Computing

Original part of one of the world’s first computers resurfaces in the USA

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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

Lewis Pugh to swim in freezing Antarctic in just Speedos in Ross Sea conservation...

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Lewis Pugh, a maritime lawyer from London, plans to do five successive one kilometer swims in the Antarctic, where the water temperature will be...
Mission to Europa

Jupiter moon Europa’s life-seeking mission gets green light

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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...
Artist impression of Josephoartigasia monesi

One ton rodent with a bite like a tiger’s related to modern-day guinea pig

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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...
optical fibres

Doubling distance of optical fibre communications with new technique

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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

Graphene means semi-transparent, flexible electronics is a real prospect

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Thanks to graphene - the strongest and thinnest material currently known in science - semi-transparent, flexible electronics may no longer be just science fiction,...
dark matter

What is Dark Matter? New fundamental particle may help

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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...
Marine Life

Much of marine life threatened with extinction, warn scientists

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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....