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Oldest public museum in world

Sustainability

Mobile is immobile

General Sciences

Can we just accept the moon landing now, too?

General Sciences

God really doesn't want it to work

Space

Famously proposed by Arthur C Clarke, a space elevator is a little closer to reality.

General Sciences

Tel Aviv University researchers have successfully connected a prosthetic hand to existing nerve endings, allowing the user to actually feel it.


Space

altAstronomers have discovered a gigantic assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years from Earth.

Sustainability

altA British man has been told he can take his employer to tribunal on the grounds he was unfairly dismissed because his views on climate change constitute a religious belief.

General Sciences

altCoconut shell charcoal is the key to what could become the first commercially viable Tokamak fusion power electrical generating facility.

General Sciences

altAn engineer and an ecologist at Michigan State University are developing robots that swim like fish to monitor water quality.

Space

Russia is planning to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for a manned mission to Mars.

Sustainability

North American automobile manufacturers are bottom of the sustainability league, according to the largest ever global study of the sector's performance.

Sustainability


Yesterday we suggested 10 reasons why analog is better than digital. It's only fair to put the other side of the argument. Here are 10 compelling reasons why digital beats analog hands down.

Space

Astronomers have observed the oldest and most distant object yet, a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB).

General Sciences

Researchers at Stanford University have  transformed human embryonic stem cells into germ cells that they believe are so perfect that they could be grown into fully-functioning sperm and eggs.

Sustainability


The difference between analog and digital isn't like the difference between chalk and cheese.

Sustainability

The pranksters who pretended they worked for the US Chamber of Commerce and issued a press release last week have received a writ for their trouble yesterday.

Space

The maiden test flight of NASAs next-generation launch vehicle, Ares I-X has been scrubbed for today (Tuesday) due to adverse weather conditions at the Cape. Flight Director Ed Mango is currently meeting with his senior staff to decide if a second attempt will be made tomorrow or Thursday.

Sustainability


A US company, Ascent Solar Technologies (tick:ASTI) said it has release a set of flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules to the marketplace.

Sustainability

Small energy-saving measures by consumers really can make a big difference, according to Michigan State University scientists, and peer pressure is the best way to achieve them.

Space

NASA has photographed night falling over Saturn's entire ring system, an event which happens only once every 15 years.

General Sciences

Carbon nanotubes - which are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications - could cause lung cancer if inhaled, according to a study.

Space

NASA Orion Nebula

NASA has launched a free iPhone application that allows users to easily access videos, images and news updates published by the space agency. 

Sustainability

Biofuels worse than gasoline

As scientists question the greenness of biofuels, the number of Americans who believe the planet is warming due to man-made pollution is at its lowest point in three years, according to a survey.

Space

The most distant - and oldest - galaxy cluster yet has been discovered, beating the previous record holder by about a billion light years.

Space

The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for willing guinea-pigs for an eighteen-month Mars mission. The catch? It's just a simulation.

Sustainability

Photo voltaic (PV) systems in the US are getting to be better value, according to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

General Sciences

In an attempt to persuade students that science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) aren't actually that dull, six Massachusetts institutions have launched a mentoring program.

General Sciences

YouTube viewers worldwide have the unique opportunity to ask a Nobel laureate a question on the official Nobel Prize channel. NASA's John Mather, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring the echoes of the Big Bang, will be the first to answer a selection of video questions submitted via YouTube. The deadline for questions is 30 October.

General Sciences

There's a built-in stop-watch in the brain, according to MIT neuroscientists.

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