Annual Christmas Bird Count begins
The Annual Christmas Bird Count started on December 14th and ends on January 5th. Tens of thousands of volunteers across the Americas participate in...
LHC to operate at double the energy of its first run in 2015
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is preparing for a second three-year run in March 2015 - at double its original collisional energy.
The European Organization...
Fire was mastered about 350,000 years ago, Tabun study suggests
Humans started using fire regularly about 350,000 years ago, suggests a team of researchers from the University of Haifa, Israel, who examined artifacts at...
Greenpeace stunt at Nazca lines damaged the archeological site, Peru outraged
Greenpeace used the world-famous Nazca lines to place a giant message saying “Time for Change, The Future is Renewable,” which furious Peruvian officials say...
Bird family tree using genetic data from 48 species created
A bird ‘family tree’, said to be the most detailed ever made, using genetic data from 48 different species, traces how modern birds evolved...
Energy firms fined £4.6m for not meeting environmental targets, says Ofgem
UK’s energy regulator Ofgem says it has fined Scottish Power, SSE and GDF Suez a total of £4.6 million for failing to meet environmental...
Southampton students plan to grow lettuce on Mars
An experiment to grow lettuce on Mars is looking like a real possibility. University of Southampton students intend to bring a small pressurised greenhouse...
Scientists detect signals that may be a sign of dark matter’s existence
Scientists have detected some unusual signals from deep space that could be a sign of the existence of dark matter.
Dark matter is one of...
Five trillion pieces of plastic floating in our oceans, says study
A recent study shows that there are over five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans.
The study, published in the journal PLOS...
Earth’s water came from asteroids not comets, Rosetta mission finds
According to a recent study published in the journal Science, results from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission (which landed on Comet 67P in...