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Japan Airlines Aims To Cut Soaring Carbon Dioxide Levels

A joint initiative between the Japanese government and Japan Airlines recently got off to a flying start with the launch of the first commercial aeroplane ...

Nasa Scientists Thaw Out 30,000 Year-old Bugs

NASA scientists working on samples of Alaskan permafrost have discovered a new form of life that has been frozen in time for over 30,000 years. When the sci...

Clean Air For The Olympics in Beijing Thanks To Rooftop Grass

In a bid to clean up its act in time for the 2008 Olympics, China's choking capital city, which has seen traffic on its roads rising by 15% per year, has ta...

Toxic Boat Paint Might Be Making Whales Go Deaf

A toxic chemical used to prevent barnacles from clinging to the bottoms of boats may be causing whales to go deaf and to beach themselves, according to a st...

Exploding Star Kicked Early Humans Onto Two Legs

A team of German scientists examining material from the seabed beneath the Pacific Ocean think that they may have uncovered an important clue to the process...

Musical Earth

Why do bees hum? Because they don't know the words ! But it looks like the planet earth might hum as well - at frequency of around 2 to 7 milihertz - way be...

Condom Factory Conserves Rainforest

The factory, in Xapuri, a remote province in the north-western state of Acre, aims to produce 100 million condoms a year by 2005, and 200 million by 2006. A...

Deepest Extreme Bacteria Discovered

Scientists have discovered bacteria in a hole drilled more than 4000 feet deep in volcanic rock in Hawaii, in an environment that could be very similar to t...

Water From Ancient Rocks Clue To Life’s Origins

Fossils can tell us an enormous amount about the kinds of things that were living on the earth before we came along, but fossils can’t tell us everyth...

Pisa Once Like Venice

Archeologists have unearthed a ghost fleet of ships buried in mud outside the Italian city of Pisa. This had led them to think that Pisa was built on a lago...