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British scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer. The team, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, showed the answer was a tiny handful, between one and 10 mutations depending on the type of tumour.

Cassini has revealed a killer cloud high in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. Although the craft plunged to its death several weeks ago, NASA teams are still analysing its data. The latest discovery reveals a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon.

Prior to 1965, October 18 was a very warm day in the US, but after 1965 temperatures plummeted and never recovered.

You might not need a telescope to spot Uranus tonight. The ice giant planet will reach opposition on Thursday, bringing it to the closest point in its orbit to Earth.

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French scientists say they may have found a potential cause of dyslexia which could be treatable, hidden in tiny cells in the human eye.

A new catalyst material developed by chemists at MIT provides key insight into the design requirements for producing liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, the leading component of greenhouse gas emissions. The findings suggest a route toward using the world’s existing infrastructure for fuel storage and distribution, without adding net greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere.

Ocean clams and worms release a huge amount of harmful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, almost as much as 20,000 dairy cows, a study has found.

CLIMATE alarmism is a gigantic fraud: it only survives by suppressing dissent and by spending tens of billions of dollars of public money every year on pseudo-scientific propaganda.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake struck 424 miles off Japan’s island of Kyushu at a depth of 6.2 miles, the agency said. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

According to new research, people can be aware that they are dead after their heart has stopped beating. This suggests that the brain and consciousness seems to work even after the body has stopped working. Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, and his team looked at people who had cardiac arrest and then were successfully resuscitated back to life.

New study titled ‘The Interactive Effects of Elevated CO2 and Solar Radiation Intensity on Two Coccolithophore Strains’ demonstrates that more carbon dioxide can be shown to increase growth of various forms of phytoplankton.

Consider the refreezing during the first half of October through yesterday, adding an average of 96k km2 per day. On the left side, the Laptev Sea has filled in, and just below it, the East Siberian Sea is also growing fast ice from the shore to meet refreezing drift ice.

Updated: The Shrinking CO2 Climate Sensitivity

Most people have heard of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but there were much worse fires burning at that time. Thousands of people were killed by massive fires in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. There were also huge fires burning in the Rocky Mountains.