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.

Mini black hole providing all our electrical energy requirement

Mini black holes could supply world with power or destroy us says Hawking

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Mini black holes could supply the world with all the electric power it needs, but also have the potential to destroy every one of...
Nuclear Fusion coil of stellarator

Nuclear fusion the Holy Grail of clean energy a step closer say German scientists

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Nuclear fusion, the Holy Grail of clean, safe and virtually never-ending energy is a step closer to becoming a reality, say German scientists at...
Ravens pair up for life

Ravens capable of paranoia when threat is not visible just like us

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Ravens are capable of paranoia, even when the threat is not visible, just like humans. They are aware that unseen others may be spying...
Alien mutant freak fish is a short nosed batfish

Alien human like freak fish is a shortnose batfish no need to panic

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The bizarre alien human like freak fish discovered a couple of days is, in fact, the widespread shortnose batfish (Ogcocephalus nasutus), and not a...
Ship noise affecting killer whales and their ability to survive

Ship noise harming whales and likely causing their deaths

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Ship noise is harming whales, specifically killers whales (orcas), and is likely partly the cause of their deaths, says a team of scientists from...
Neanderthals and modern humans why they disappeared

Neanderthals became extinct due to our higher cultural level

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Did Neanderthals become extinct because we (modern humans) had a higher higher cultural level, was it their inability to adapt to climate change, or...
Hawking says a sense of humour is vital

Stephen Hawking black hole lecture he may be closer to Nobel Prize

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Professor Stephen Hawking, the famous, charismatic theoretical physicist, who put forward the hypothesis that black holes may emit a type of radiation – Hawking...
Winter floods UK in 2014

Winter floods in southern England in 2014 linked to man made climate change

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The terrible storms and floods that devastated southern England in the winter of 2013-2014 were probably caused by climate change – more specifically, global...
Mutant alien fish stuns locals in the Caribbean

Alien mutant fish with human like feet and nose stuns locals

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A bizarre alien mutant fish with incredibly human like feet and nose, fish scales and what look like wings, has been discovered ashore on...
large conspiracies never last very long

In large conspiracies somebody always talks or slips up

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Large conspiracies do not last - somebody always talks or slips up. The risk of a whistleblower spilling the beans or some kind of...