Solar energy captured in Sahara Desert could be exported to Europe
Europe could soon be getting electricity made from solar energy captured by a plant in the Sahara Desert.
A request to start building the plant...
Mangrove forests disappearing faster than average forest loss
Despite their huge ecological and economic value, mangrove forests are disappearing much faster than the average rate of forests around the world. Fortunately, although...
Ravens can plan ahead as well as apes
By getting them to solve problems not found in nature, scientists have shown that ravens can plan ahead to a certain extent, an ability...
Teleportation becomes a science fact, no longer fiction
Teleportation is no longer science fiction, says a team of Chinese scientists, after teleporting a photon particle from the Earth's surface to an orbiting...
Blue whale skeleton Hope replaces Dippy, Natural History Museum
The giant skeleton of a blue whale called Hope, replacing Dippy the Diplodocus, is now on permanent display in Hintze Hall at London's Natural...
Giant sunspot 75,000 miles across on Sun surface
A giant sunspot, estimated to be 75,000 across, has been detected by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which orbits Earth and has been observing the...
Massive iceberg splits from Antarctic ice shelf
An iceberg approximately one-quarter the size of Wales has split from Antarctica.
A one-billion-ton iceberg broke off from a region called Larsen C Ice Shelf...
Bacterial DNA stores movie in scientific breakthrough
Scientists have managed to replay a movie encoded in bacterial DNA for the first time. The researchers encoded the primitive film in bacterial DNA...
Huge sunspot could produce solar flare and knock out satellites
A huge sunspot that appeared on the Sun's surface could be dangerous, scientists warn - it could produce a solar flare capable of damaging...
Alien ice forms ultra-rapidly on Earth
A team of American scientists has discovered on Earth how dense, alien ice can transform from water within just a few billionths of a...