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New missile will 'kill fewer civilians'
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
A revolutionary missile system which, it is claimed, will significantly reduce the danger of civilian casualties was unveiled yesterday at the Paris air show.
London to New York in 90 minutes: is this the Concorde of the future?
Monday, 20 June 2011
Here is a glimpse of the future. By 2050, seaweed-powered space-liners will fly from London to Tokyo in two-and-a-half hours, at a cruising altitude of 20 miles and generating no significant pollution.
UK to fare better than most as world warms up
Friday, 17 June 2011
Steve Connor: High night temperatures are predicted for UK cities, and these were blamed for deaths in the heatwave of 2003.
Video: Nasa unveil new pictures of Mercury
Friday, 17 June 2011
Nasa's probe Messenger has revealed new pictures of Mercury.
Memory switch-on could help fight brain disease
Friday, 17 June 2011
Lewis Smith: Memories have been blocked and recovered in experiments that hold out the prospect of 'artificial limbs for the mind' to combat Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.
Pole-to-pole flights gather the data vital to predict climate change
Friday, 17 June 2011
The converted jet swoops up and down across the entire Pacific, collecting thousands of air samples for analysis
Video: Longest lunar eclipse for 11 years
Thursday, 16 June 2011
People around the world have been watching the longest lunar eclipse for 11 years.
Climate change panel in hot water again over 'biased' energy report
Thursday, 16 June 2011
The world's foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt.
World's smallest dinosaur found
Thursday, 16 June 2011
A new species of dinosaur found at a brickworks is believed to be the world's smallest.
New dinosaur found at brickworks in east Sussex
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
A new species of dinosaur found at a brickworks is believed to be the world's smallest.
The bird that may explain why people are unfaithful
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Jerome Taylor: It may not work for Ryan Giggs but as a get-out clause for philandering finches it is just about perfect: I can't help cheating, it's in my genes.
Gay: Born this way?
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The debate about what makes people gay has been raging for decades.
Methane galore: Whisky and the green energy revolution
Monday, 13 June 2011
Whisky has a huge carbon footprint. But now a green energy revolution could be changing all that, says Jamie Merrill
Tom Bogdan: 'The sky at night stops me from sleeping'
Monday, 13 June 2011
The head of the world's only civilian operation to forecast solar storms is a worried man. Steve Connor reports
Sun storms make 'controlled' power cuts likely
Monday, 13 June 2011
Controlled "outages" will protect the National Electricity Grids in the event of a powerful solar storm hitting the Earth.
Poliakoff's big brother is new star of science
Saturday, 11 June 2011
The voluminous hair, thick glasses and halting voice of the Nottingham chemist Martyn Poliakoff have made him a YouTube sensation.
Video: Nasa shows off solar blast
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Rare sun blast means space radiation is heading for Earth.
Video: Soyuz spacecraft launches
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Russia's new digital Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from Kazakhstan.
Periodic Table gets new elements (but no one knows what they do)
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Tom Peck: They have existed for less than a second each, but two new elements have been added to the Periodic Table.
Surprise discovery allows scientists to block Alzheimer's
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Scientists developing treatments for the devastating brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) have unexpectedly blocked the onset of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia.
A computer dating revolution (of the archaeological kind)
Monday, 6 June 2011
Innovations in programming are changing archaeologists’ perception of how settled life and early agriculture spread through Britain.
Cern scientists shatter antimatter record
Monday, 6 June 2011
How do you store a substance which vanishes into thin air the moment it comes into contact with any material known to man, even thin air itself?
How I was blindfolded – then tried to 'see' like a bat
Friday, 3 June 2011
Blind people are being taught a revolutionary technique that allows them to live independently. Jerome Taylor tries it out.
Behind the science: How echo-location works
Friday, 3 June 2011
To use echo-location efficiently it takes many hours of practice and a huge amount of determination but in the space of just half an hour Visibility’s Alex Campbell was able to teach me the basics of how it works.
Early women had to go forth and multiply, while men stayed home
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Steve Connor: Some 90 per cent of men seem to have lived and died in place where they were born compared to half of women.
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