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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Kemp’s ridley sea turtle washed up on Cumbrian beach dies

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A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that was found washed up on a beach in Cumbria, North West England, has died. It was one of...
Helicopter Mars

Mars helicopter being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is testing a Mars helicopter that would fly around the Red Planet, scouting at low altitude and helping the...
Melting of ice caps

Arctic ice cap sliding into ocean at accelerating speed

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According to satellite images, a remote Arctic ice cap has lost more than 50 meters of thickness since 2012, which is about one-sixth of...
Light

Speed of light slowed down in free space for first time

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Scientists from the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University said they managed to slow down light in free space for the first time. Their...
Microsoft HoloLens

OnSight will help scientists work virtually on Mars, NASA and Microsoft team up

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Microsoft and NASA have got together to develop a software that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars. Called OnSight, the software is...
Rosetta probe

Rosetta probe provides fascinating clues about comet formation

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The Rosetta probe, which is orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is helping scientists understand how comets were formed. New photographs of the icy object show it...
Doomsday clock movement

Doomsday clock two minutes closer to humankind’s destruction

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The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clockface that represents how close we are to our own destruction, moved from five to three minutes to midnight...
Dino killing asteroid

Dino-killing asteroid did not cause global firestorms

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The asteroid that scientists believe led to the extinction of dinosaurs did not cause the vast global firestorms that ravaged our planet, researchers from...
Meteorites and hidden magnetic messages

Hidden magnetic messages from early solar system found in meteorites

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Meteorites contain hidden magnetic messages from the early solar system, scientists at the University of Cambridge reported in the journal Nature. The meteorites’ magnetism...
Wormhole in Milky Way

Update: A giant wormhole in the Milky Way that could transport humans? Perhaps

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A massive wormhole believed to exist in the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, could be a doorway to another galaxy, scientists wrote in the...