Brexit disaster for science says Hawking plus 150 scientists UKIP disagrees
Stephen Hawking and 150 other scientists say Brexit would be a disaster for British science, but UKIP, the anti-EU party, says the opposite and...
Seventeen soaked canaries left in box in freezing night RSPCA investigates
Seventeen soaked canaries had been abandoned in a box with no air holes – it had been sealed shut - on one of the...
Bacterium that eats plastic bottles may solve our waste problem
A bacterium that eats plastic bottles could solve our problem of ever-growing mountains of plastic waste, says a team of Japanese scientists. The microbe...
Hummingbird flies 1300 miles without stopping in incredible migration feat
There is a hummingbird that flies over 1300 miles (2000 km) without stopping, which is an incredible migration feat for such a tiny creature...
Human evolution linked to chewing less due to meat processing
Human evolution, which advanced much more rapidly than in other animals, is linked to less time spent chewing due mainly to the processing of...
Stephen Hawking plus 150 scientists warn of Brexit disaster for UK science
Eminent theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, along with 150 scientists, today warn that Brexit would be a total disaster for UK science. The scientists,...
Australian spider breathes under water eats fish frogs toads and tadpoles
An Australian spider that breathes under water and eats fish, frogs, toads and tadpoles - Dolomedes briangreenei - has been named in honour of...
InSight Mars lander launch delayed till May 2018 due to leaks
NASA is rescheduling its Insight Mars lander launch until May 2018 – twenty-six months later than the March 2016 sendoff that had originally been...
Flying saucer transported by HGV truck in Arizona
What is this HGV truck transporting in Arizona coming out of Area 51 – doesn’t it look eerily like a flying saucer? The image,...
The world will end when the Sun dies like this says Hubble Telescope
The world will end when the Sun dies, just like this, the Hubble Space Telescope informed via a colourful image of a dying star,...