Science
Video: Longest lunar eclipse for 11 years
People around the world have been watching the longest lunar eclipse for 11 years.
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Climate change panel in hot water again over 'biased' energy report
Thursday, 16 June 2011
The world's foremost authority on climate change used a Greenpeace campaigner to help write one of its key reports, which critics say made misleading claims about renewable energy, The Independent has learnt.
World's smallest dinosaur found
Thursday, 16 June 2011
A new species of dinosaur found at a brickworks is believed to be the world's smallest.
New dinosaur found at brickworks in east Sussex
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
A new species of dinosaur found at a brickworks is believed to be the world's smallest.
The bird that may explain why people are unfaithful
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Jerome Taylor: It may not work for Ryan Giggs but as a get-out clause for philandering finches it is just about perfect: I can't help cheating, it's in my genes.
Gay: Born this way?
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The debate about what makes people gay has been raging for decades.
Methane galore: Whisky and the green energy revolution
Monday, 13 June 2011
Whisky has a huge carbon footprint. But now a green energy revolution could be changing all that, says Jamie Merrill
Tom Bogdan: 'The sky at night stops me from sleeping'
Monday, 13 June 2011
The head of the world's only civilian operation to forecast solar storms is a worried man. Steve Connor reports
Sun storms make 'controlled' power cuts likely
Monday, 13 June 2011
Controlled "outages" will protect the National Electricity Grids in the event of a powerful solar storm hitting the Earth.
Poliakoff's big brother is new star of science
Saturday, 11 June 2011
The voluminous hair, thick glasses and halting voice of the Nottingham chemist Martyn Poliakoff have made him a YouTube sensation.
Video: Nasa shows off solar blast
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Rare sun blast means space radiation is heading for Earth.
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1 'Controlled' power cuts likely as Sun storm threatens national grid
2 The bird that may explain why people are unfaithful
4 Methane galore: Whisky and the green energy revolution
5 New dinosaur found at brickworks in east Sussex
6 Video: Longest lunar eclipse for 11 years
7 The Big Question: Is time travel possible, and is there any chance that it will ever take place?
8 World's smallest dinosaur found
9 Who wants to live for ever? A scientific breakthrough could mean humans live for hundreds of years
10 Surprise discovery allows scientists to block Alzheimer's
11 World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists
12 Why women really do love self-obsessed psychopaths
13 Oregon's monster mushroom is world's biggest living thing
14 How the Moon rules your life
15 Autism and genetics: A breakthrough that sheds light on a medical mystery
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