Written by Phil Gibbs
The driverless trucks are coming. This is not the premise to an upcoming sci-fi thriller, although the front pages of the UK’s papers have recently led some to believe that this is the start of something very sinister.
Written by Paul Homewood
The dead tree press have only taken five weeks to catch up on my report of this National Grid study, posted here last month!
Written by BBC
Animals are often used by scientists and psychologists to illustrate or prove theoretical ideas. Naomi Alderman has been looking at the story of Pavlov’s dogs in Science Stories.
Written by Geraint Hughes
When a climate alarmist, here-in and hence forth known as the Frizzler’s, try to bedazzle you with blinding science, telling you that harmful back radiation rays are going to frazzle the Earth, leaving everything asunder and barren you need to be able to provide examples which show how utterly ridiculous they are.
Written by Ethan Siegel
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” –Neil deGrasse Tyson
Written by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
By following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has identified a pulsar spinning at more than 42,000 revolutions per minute, making it the second-fastest known.
Written by University of Arizona
The origin of cosmic rays, high-energy particles from outer space constantly impacting on Earth, is among the most challenging open questions in astrophysics. Now new research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society sheds new light on the origin of those energetic particles.
Written by John O'Sullivan
Top Swiss specialist in organic and general chemistry publishes devastating new paper backing claims that consensus ‘greenhouse gas’ science is wrong about man-made global warming.
Written by Joe Mellor
Women were the key to spreading culture and knowledge around Europe 4,000 years ago, according to new research.
Written by Greg Wilford
‘Invoking aliens as a potential solution to an ongoing mystery is lazy,’ complains science writer. Mysterious signals detected in a distant galaxy by astronomers working for Stephen Hawking’s project to find alien life have sparked a debate over whether they could be from UFOs.
Written by Padraig Belton
Image copyright: RTA/VOLOCOPTERTech companies are competing to develop the first viable passenger-carrying sky taxis, whether manned or pilotless, but how soon could these clever copters really be whizzing over our cities? And would you trust one?
Written by Cecile Borkhataria
Researchers have discovered that a 192-year-long series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica coincided with accelerated deglaciation 17,700 years ago.
Written by DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Written by Michael Bastasch
Environmental activists are blaming global warming for intensifying Hurricane Irma as the massive storm barrels across the South Atlantic towards the Florida coast.
Written by Hokkaido University
Observations by Japan’s Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet’s atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a phenomenon called superrotation.
Written by Dominic Rushe
Every second of every day Google processes over 40,000 search queries – that’s about 3.5bn questions a day or 1.2tn a year. But there’s one question that Google apparently doesn’t want answered: is Google a monopoly?