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08 July 2010
Canada's landmark Gwaii Haarnas National Marine Reserve will protect not just the seabed but the mountains that...
22 May 2010
Researchers at Michigan State University have made a discovery that could help turn the burning bush into the saviour...
02 May 2010
The world is still losing biodiversity at an alarming rate despite world leaders promising in 2002 to cut the rate of...
25 April 2010
Researchers this week have presented, for the first time, a record of Asian Monsoon data stretching over 700 years. The...
11 April 2010
Suzanne Smrekar and colleagues have been studying Venus using an instrument on the ESA Venus Express mission and found...
10 April 2010
This week astronomers have solved a long-running debate over the nature of the surface of our neighbour planet, Venus,...
31 March 2010
Scientists claim to have solved "the faint Sun paradox", which says that the Earth's temperatures have...
31 March 2010
Geologists around the world have the electronic equivalent of a glass to the wall, listening to vibrations from...
28 March 2010
A paper published in the journal science shows that pollution in Asia gets pushed up into the stratosphere by hitching...
07 March 2010
Scientists have found evidence for a magnetic field around the Earth at least 250 million years earlier than previously...
07 March 2010
Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...
07 February 2010
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Scientists photograph erupting underwater volcano for the first time...
06 December 2009
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Human ancestors used fire to improve stone tools as much as 164,000 years ago...