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.

Toilet in space explained

This is how Tim Peake goes to the toilet in space

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Have you ever wondered how Tim Peake goes to the toilet in space? There are several questions, including that one, that adults wonder about...
Brain Modem research for the military

Brain modem so you can connect with digital world through thought

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Imagine a brain modem that allows you to connect with the digital world simply through thought – an implantable neural interface so you can communicate...
White Storks not bothering to migrate with so much food in rubbish dumps

Storks not migrating and overwintering in rubbish dumps to conserve energy

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Storks are either not migrating at all or flying much shorter distances than they used to. They conserve energy by staying in places made...
sperm whale died on beach in Norfolk

Trapped sperm whale dies on Hunstanton beach in Norfolk after injuring tail

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A 45-foot whale that got stuck in very shallow waters on Friday afternoon (22 January) on the beach at Hunstanton, Norfolk, died last night,...
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur BBC 1 programme

Biggest ever dinosaur to be presented by David Attenborough on 24 January

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The biggest dinosaur ever to walk the Earth, fourteen times the weight of an African elephant, will be presented by Sir David Attenborough on...
Most fairy tales have been in existence for many thousands of years

Most fairy tales up to 6000 years old predating the Bible and Greek mythology

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Most fairy tales, such as Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk and Beauty and the Beast, are between four and six thousand years old, predating...
Fossilised bones of the Dragon Thief Dracoraptor found in Wales

Welsh Dragon Thief Dinosaur Dracoraptor was related to T rex

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The Welsh Dragon Thief Dinosaur (Dracoraptor hanigani) existed more than 200 million years ago and was a distant cousin of T rex (Tyrannosaurus rex)....
Hawking says a sense of humour is vital

Humans risk extinction if we don’t colonise other planets, says Hawking

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Humans risk extinction, probably from something we created ourselves, if we don’t colonise other planets first, thus spreading ourselves out in space and reducing...
Aliens once existed but they all died off rapidly

Aliens once existed but they all died off say Australian astrobiologists

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Aliens once existed but they all died off, say astrobiologists from the Australian National University (ANU). There has been extraterrestrial life out there, we...
Planet nine the ninth planet that orbits our Sun discovered

Planet Nine far out in our solar system discovered

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A ninth planet, currently dubbed Planet Nine, has been discovered far out in our solar system by Caltech scientists. It has a mass ten...