Archive for the ‘Science’

  • Worlddan#039;s rarest ducklings Madagascan pochards hatch
    By Victoria GillScience reporter, BBC Nature ...
    published on April 6th, 2012 at 18:02
  • LHC is back with big energy boost
    Two teams at the LHC have seen hints of what may well prove to be the Higgs The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is operating again after its winter break. Early on Thursday, opposing stable beams of protons were smashed into each other at four observation positions. The total collision energy in these bunches of sub-atomic particles was eight trillion electron volts –...
    published on April 5th, 2012 at 18:25
  • T. rex relative is biggest ever feathered animal
    Yutyrannus lived long before T. rex, in the early Cretaceous Period A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal – living or extinct. The feathered meat-eating dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago and is estimated to have weighed a whopping 1,400kg as an adult. The new species, known as Yutyrannus, has been identified...
    published on April 5th, 2012 at 03:20
  • CO2 dan#039;drove end to last ice agedan#039;
    By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent, BBC News Ice core records from Antarctica had suggested the CO2 increase lagged behind temperature rise A new, detailed record of past climate change provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The finding is based on a very broad...
    published on April 5th, 2012 at 01:02
  • Woolly mammoth carcass may have been cut into by humans
    By Ben AvissReporter, BBC Nature // source:...
    published on April 4th, 2012 at 22:29
  • Woolly mammoth may have been killed by humans
    By Ben AvissReporter, BBC Nature // source:...
    published on April 4th, 2012 at 15:16
  • Mammoths killed by lions taken by people, find suggests
    By Ben AvissReporter, BBC Nature // source:...
    published on April 4th, 2012 at 13:53
  • Evidence of dan#039;earliest fire usedan#039;
    Wonderwerk Cave is in the Northern Cape and was occupied by ancient human species Scientists say they have new evidence that our ancestors were using fire as early as a million years ago. It takes the form of ash and bone fragments recovered from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. The team tells the journal PNAS that the sediments suggest frequent, controlled fires were...
    published on April 3rd, 2012 at 21:34
  • Warning over MoD science cuts
    By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website The defence science and technology budget has been falling over the last decade The UK's Ministry of Defence must invest in science and technology now or suffer the consequences in coming years, a meeting in London has heard. Rees Ward, head of defence industry body ADS, said the effects of cuts in these areas...
    published on April 3rd, 2012 at 19:44
  • Warning over defence science cuts
    By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website The defence science and technology budget has plummeted in the last decade The UK's Ministry of Defence must invest in science and technology now or suffer the consequences in coming years, a meeting in London has heard. Rees Ward, head of defence industry body ADS, said the effects of cuts in these areas would...
    published on April 3rd, 2012 at 19:31
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