How last year’s Pakistan deluges have changed lives
Miesiąc: Lipiec 2011
Flood memories
How last year’s Pakistan deluges have changed lives
Pollinators ‚lured away by farms’
A study challenges the idea that areas like farmland provide pollinating insects with a „corridor” between fragmented habitats.
Search under way for jubilee wood
The Woodland Trust begins a search for a 500-acre site for a flagship woodland that will be planted to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Voices hard to hear for dyslexics
People with dyslexia have trouble recognising unfamiliar voices, a study finds – giving scientists new insight into human voice recognition.
Case against protection
If protected areas can’t stop the loss of nature, what can?
On with the wind
Dutch student team puts its solar car through aerodynamic tests
Solar car put to wind tunnel test
The University of Delft’s entry to this year’s World Solar Challenge – a 3,000km race across Australia – gets put through its paces in a wind tunnel.
Northern exposure
Giant asteroid Vesta reveals more of itself to the Dawn probe
VIDEO: Solar car undergoes final tests
Nuon Solar Team technical manager Mike Hoogstraten explains the final phase of testing on the car his team is entering in the World Solar Challenge.
Brain waves ‚are the best brakes’
Scientists in Germany say tapping into drivers’ brain signals to cut braking distances and avoid car crashes
AUDIO: ‚Campaign’ against CFS research
Why are researchers working on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome being targeted in a campaign of abuse and intimidation?
Sieć radioteleskopów ALMA ma już 16 anten
Na teren budowy wielkiej sieci radioteleskopów ALMA na płaskowyżu Chajnantor w Chile na wysokości 5000 metrów n.p.m. dostarczona została szesnasta antena. Oznacza to, że ALMA może rozpocząć pierwsze testowe obserwacje naukowe.
Exclusion zone
Inside Chernobyl exclusion zone 25 years on
Images from inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone
Stepping inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone 25 years on from the disaster
In pictures: Lost in time
Stepping inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone three decades on from the disaster
Stem cell trial for MS treatment
A major clinical trial will investigate whether stem cells can be safely used to stop or even reverse the damage caused by multiple sclerosis.
NZ penguin gets health clearance
A young emperor penguin found washed up on a New Zealand beach gets a health clearance after tests and enjoys a first swim.
Plant has a bat beckoning beacon
A rainforest vine has evolved dish-shaped leaves to attract the bats that pollinate it, scientists have found.
VIDEO: Crocodiles hatch after six years
A farm in Cambridgeshire thinks it has made history by being the first in the country to hatch Nile crocodiles.
VIDEO: Crocodiles hatch at Norwich farm
A farm in Cambridgeshire thinks it has made history by being the first in the country to hatch Nile crocodiles.
Nature’s spring
Cod bounces back – with nature’s oscillatory help