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.

Three types of lightbulbs

Traditional lightbulbs win reprieve with new tech say MIT scientists

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Traditional lightbulbs will win a reprieve, say MIT and Purdue scientists, who have managed to combine the warm familiar glow of the incandescent lightbulbs,...
Bronze Age homes in excellent condition

Bronze Age homes incredibly well preserved discovered in East Anglia

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Two incredibly well-preserved homes have been discovered at Must Farm quarry in Whittlesey, East Anglia, during an excavation. The extraordinary find will give us...
Giant icebergs melt and encourage phytoplankton growth and carbon capture

Giant icebergs slow down global warming say Sheffield researchers

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Giant icebergs slow down global warming as they melt in the ocean, say researchers from Sheffield University’s Department of Geography. Melting water from mega...
New battery that does not catch fire or explode

Battery that never burns or explodes invented by Stanford scientists

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A lithium-ion battery that never burns or explodes – it shuts down when the temperature is too high and restarts when it cools down...
White Letter Hairstreak rare UK butterfly

Rare UK butterfly facing extinction threat due to loss of elm trees

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A rare UK butterfly - the White-Letter Hairstreak – is facing extinction because its only habitat, English elm trees, are rapidly vanishing due to Dutch elm...
Stephen Hawking may be closer to a Nobel Prize award

Stephen Hawking closer to Nobel Prize award

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Stephen Hawking is closer to being awarded the Nobel Prize, as evidence is emerging that may prove his work into radiation from black holes. His...
London pollution exceeds limit in eight days

London smashes annual pollution limit in just 8 days

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London smashed its annual pollution limit for 2016 in just eight days, making it the most polluted city in the UK and one of...
Australia House has an ancient well with water fit to drink

Australia house has twelfth century drinkable water from holy well

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Australia House in London has twelfth century drinkable water from an ancient holy well, scientists say after carrying out laboratory tests. Australia House, a...
Bizarre snail on surface of Pluto

Snail sliding on Pluto has scientists mystified

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A mysterious snail like object that is sliding on the surface of Pluto has scientists mystified and alien enthusiasts jumping up and down with...
Monarch butterly is this years first Google Doodle for 2016

The Mountain of Butterflies is first Google Doodle of 2016

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The Mountain of Butterflies is the first Google Doodle of 2016, to mark the 41st anniversary of the discovery of a small area on...