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An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica.
Scientists are developing self-organising swarms of turbines which they hope can be used to tap energy from the Gulf Stream.
A scheme to generate renewable energy by simply pulling electric charge out of humid air sparks debate amongst scientists.
The dinosaurs were wiped out by at least two meteorite impacts rather than a single strike, say scientists.
Scientists working in Chernobyl find a way to predict which species are likely to be most severely damaged by radioactive contamination.
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible.
Scientists show how the giant, flightless terror birds that roamed South America for millions of years would have taken down their prey.
A strange double earthquake triggered the Tonga tsunami that killed 192 people in September 2009, scientists say.
A claim by a scientist at Hewlett-Packard to have solved one of the most difficult riddles in maths is challenged by scientists.
US scientists produce new evidence that genetically modified plants can establish widespread self-sustaining populations outside farmers’ fields.
A disease known as white-nose syndrome is likely to wipe out a once-common species of bat in the north-eastern US, according to scientists.
Contrary to recent reports about water content in lunar rocks, the Moon may be quite dry, say scientists.
Scientists have detected carbon buckyballs – the largest molecules ever seen in space – in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.
The European Space Agency is to call upon scientists to come up with ideas for the next great space mission.
A team of scientists return to the North Atlantic to get more data on how volcanic ash affects the region’s marine biology.
Scientists analysing data from Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft say they have located some of Mercury’s most recent volcanic activity.
A species of coral in the Red Sea could stop growing by 2070 if the current warming trend continues, say scientists.
Scientists apply X-ray technology to better understand the subtle shading in the face of the Mona Lisa.
Thousands of tourists and scientists on Chile’s Easter Island see a total solar eclipse as it crosses the South Pacific.
Scientists and composers produce a new choral work in which singers sing parts of their own genetic code.
Olivine rocks that may have originated deep within the Moon were spied on its surface by a Japanese probe, scientists report.
Scientists employ the latest imaging techniques to look inside a python that had just swallowed a rat whole.
Scientists in the US have developed way of predicting how likely a person is to live beyond the age of 100.
Scientists have filmed and studied three-legged dogs walking on treadmills in a bid to develop robot-building strategies.
Scientists announce plans to protect sea turtle nests and eggs from potential impacts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The whole of Mars’ surface was shaped by liquid water around four billion years ago, say scientists.
Oil exploration plans in eastern Russia are a serious threat to gray whales in the area, say scientists.