The UK will make publicly funded studies open to all.
A study has found only 30% of radical loss of the Arctic’s ice is due to natural variability in the Atlantic, and it will probably get worse.
Several times in the past 10 years scientists have had to rewrite the textbooks on Neanderthals, the last species of human to go extinct.
World’s leading thinkers write on what impresses them — from Darwinism to the concept of ‘deep time’
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/ 3 February 2012
In the latest tell-people-what-they-want-to-hear speech on the election circuit, Newt Gingrich made a remarkable promise: he wants a moon base.
The pseudo-scientific utterances of famous stars are often dangerously misleading or just wrong.
Scientists exploring underwater vents near Antarctica have found a world of creatures thriving in temperatures of 400C°.
Scientists have worked out how caffeine might offer protection against some skin cancers, a finding that could lead to better sunscreens.
Mothers who sleep on their backs or right-hand sides the night before giving birth are twice as likely to have a stillborn child.
Scientists find abnormalities in key areas of grey matter in the frontal lobes.
In science fiction stories, antimatter pops up everywhere as a power source for spaceships or the active ingredient in diabolical bombs.
The planets, found by researchers at Notre Dame University, in the United States, do not orbit any star.
Scientists have found that passive smoking can raise blood pressure levels in boys.
Cut back on tuna and salmon and load your plate instead with herring and sardines if you want to help save the world’s fish.
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/ 15 February 2011
Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness.
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/ 10 December 2010
Scientists say they’ve shown that damage done to nerve cells in multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells in the body.
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/ 26 November 2010
Global carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1.3% in 2009 compared with the previous year, largely owing to the effects of the economic crisis.
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/ 19 November 2010
The pattern of brain activity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is markedly different from that of children without the condition.
The brain uses several ways to work out the location of different parts of the body — this includes feedback from muscles and joints.
When Steve Jobs launched his latest must-have computer to the world, he might not have been thinking about the dolphin market.
Potter’s technology makes drilling more simple and cheaper and, consequently, enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) more economically viable.
North Sea countries plan vast clean-energy project which could offer weather-proof supply.
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/ 20 November 2009
Scientists urge the world’s leaders to get serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions during the upcoming climate summit, reports Alok Jha.
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/ 16 September 2009
Fed up with rising energy bills and an uncomfortable home, Rose Watson took some simple steps to green her home, with a positive effect on her budget.
The British government gave the go-ahead for the construction of four eco-towns, offering 10 000 homes overall.
The British government unveiled the world’s largest coordinated trial of environmentally friendly vehicles this week.
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/ 13 January 2009
Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food and fresh water in deserts.
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/ 15 December 2008
To a casual observer, it looks no different from a standard modern Mini, the British classic reimagined, to great plaudits, by BMW.
Even for climate change optimists, it sounds too good to be true: a liquid fuel made from plants that is chemically identical to crude oil.
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy back plan for solar panels in the North African desert, writes Alok Jha.
The oceans off the Antarctic peninsula are some of the most mysterious on the planet. A thick cover of ice has concealed what life they contain for the past few millennia. But with the rise in global temperatures, speeded by the gaping hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, some of these ice sheets have collapsed.