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The team behind the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) has announced it has detected an excess of particles, known as positrons, at high energies that could point way towards possible detection of dark matter.Read more...
Data acquired by the European Space Agency’s €600 million Planck surveyor satellite, launched in 2009, has provided the most detailed picture yet of the universe’s cosmic microwave background (CMB); revealing details about its birth and first instants.
Scientists now peg the age of the universe at 13.Read more...
A report published by the UK think tank, Chatham House, claims that the increasing use of biofuels will be more harmful to the environment than fossil fuels, and will cost motorists as much as £1.3bn a year by 2020.Read more...
According to physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, we have just 1,000 years left to escape “fragile” Earth before we face extinction. He bases such claims on the earth being too delicate a planet to withstand humanity’s constant abuse.Read more...
10 years ago it would have seemed unlikely that a comparison between precious metals and information ‘bits’ would ever have arisen.
When stock markets crash and natural disasters occur, financiers lose faith in bonds, shares and currency and invest in things which are expected to retain their value.Read more...
Now, we all love a brain teaser to stimulate our minds and get that ‘feel-good’ satisfaction. Funnily enough, so do our human-like friends Chimpanzees, according to some new research at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.Read more...
Scientists from University of California, Santa Barbara, have taken a step forward from conventional methods of harvesting energy from the sun, and now something promising has emerged. As described by Professor of Chemistry, Martin Moskovits, it is the “first radically new alternate to semiconductor-based solar conversion devices to be developed in the past 70 years”.Read more...
Last year I wrote an article outlining the change in mindset about the future of the energy markets and the new policies which governments have decided to implement. I called it ‘The End of the Nuclear Renaissance?’ This article intends to follow the ever-unraveling aftermath of Fukushima and the consequences it is having on one key-player.Read more...
The common saying “It’s what it says on the tin” has proven to be inaccurate in the case of supermarket products such as beef burgers. Some of the major supermarkets, famously Tesco, were selling beef burgers with horse meat present.Read more...