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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Fossil of robust ancient human jawbone found off coast of Taiwan

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A four-inch long fossilized jawbone of an ancient human with particularly large teeth from between 130,000 and 190,000 years ago was dredged up by fishermen...
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Five Earth-size planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year-old star

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Scientists who were sifting through four years’ worth of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered an 11.2-billion-year-old star with at least five Earth-size planets...
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US blizzard storm development witnessed by satellite

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Meteorologists at the National Weather Service have been monitoring a low pressure area that moved from the USA’s Midwest into the Atlantic Ocean and...
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How do you unboil an egg? You untangle the proteins and let them refold

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American and Australian scientists have worked out how to unboil an egg, specifically the egg white. You pull apart tangled proteins and allow them...
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Asteroid that flew close to Earth has its own moon

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The asteroid that zipped past Earth on January 26th has its own small moon, according to radar images taken from NASA’s 230-foot-wide Deep Space...
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Martian helicopter drone will scout ahead of ground-bound rover

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NASA believes a helicopter drone flying around as a scout for the ground-bound rover would help the six-wheeled vehicle work more effectively. According to...
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Asteroid that killed off dinosaurs did not cause vast global firestorms

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The asteroid that created the Chicxulubt crater in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft readying for huge Pluto photo shoot

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally nears its long-awaited encounter with Pluto, the first of many approach phases that will conclude with the first close-up...
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Our earliest primate ancestor lived in trees and looked like shrews

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When we think of our earliest primate ancestors we do not think of tree-dwelling creatures that looked like squirrels or shrews and weighed less...
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Speed of light slowed down by Scottish scientists who changed shape of photons

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Scottish scientists say they slowed down the speed of light in free space for the first time by applying a mask to an optical...