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YouTube for Scientists

Here's some news for any scientists that are listening - and anyone who want to get closer to the cutting edge - a new website has launched that aims to be a kind of YouTube for re...

World's smallest thermometer - a single molecule

Researchers have found that a green-glowing chemical from a jellyfish can be used as a molecular thermometer. Known as GFP - green fluorescent protein - t...

Spot the rain

Researchers have spotted a pattern in the floods that hit parts of Africa - they tend to occur in the year preceding a peak in sunspot activity. Writing in the journal of Geophysic...

Nano-particles take shape

This week in the journal Science, researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis described how they have managed to build long cylindrical nanop...

Make no bones about it: the theory of early man was wrong

The discovery of two new fossils looks set to re-write the history of human origins. Existing theories suggest that the early hominid, Homo habilis, which first appeared abou...

Diet foods make children fat

US researchers have found that giving young animals diet foods can trigger obesity by encouraging overeating behaviours, suggesting that the same thing could happen to young childr...

Perseids Meteor Shower

If you happen to look up tonight you ahould be in for some cosmic fireworks. It is the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight and it is a new moon so the sky should be very dark...

Wave goodbye to the reefs.

We often hear about coral reefs being the rainforests of the sea – both habitats are packed full of thousands of species and sadly both are being lost at ever more alarming rates....

Nuclear Space Screw Tackles NEOs

Although space scientists are confident that they have mapped the majority of "near Earth objects" that could conceiveably collide with us, and found that we're safe for ...

Bye bye River Dolphin?

I don’t mean to be the harbinger of bad news – but it happens this week we’ve had another piece of important but incredibly depressing news from the aquatic world.It lo...