A promising new innovation in geothermal technology, that offers a novel solution to climate change, has been created by two…
Month: June 2011
Drug makes hearts repair themselves
A drug that makes hearts repair themselves has been used in research on mice. The damage caused by a heart…
Coelacanths Can Live Past 100
Not only is the coelacanth one of the world’s oldest fish species, but the individual fish may also be long-lived.…
Spiders Evolved Spare Legs
Scientists may have uncovered why spiders are so creepy-crawly—they have more legs than they need, a new study says. After…
Ten-year-old takes on KFC for destroying US forests
Cole Rasenberger’s quest to save forests in the US South started as a school assignment to ‘be an activist’ about…
Paralysed man can stand and move his legs again
A US man who was paralysed from the chest down after being hit by a car is now able to…
Smelly chemicals confuse mosquitoes
Chemicals which interfere with a mosquito’s ability to sniff out humans have been developed by US scientists, according to research…
NASA satellite ‘helps find 17 Egypt pyramids’
Archaeologists have uncovered as many as 17 buried pyramids in Egypt with the help of NASA satellite imagery, according to…
Deepest-living land animal found
Worms have been found living at depths in the Earth where it was previously thought animals could not survive. Discovered…
Penguins Do the Wave to Stay Warm
Emperor penguins huddled together against the cold are using coordinated waves of movement to stay tightly packed together. The surprising…