Science
Warning UK science endangered post-Brexit without EU collaboration
The UK received £1.52 billion of European Research Council income, more than any other country and a fifth of the total
Video – Solar telescope show sun’s surface made up of ‘cells’ each the size of Texas
Professor Jeff Kuhn of the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) said: “It is literally the greatest leap in humanity’s ability to study the Sun from the ground since Galileo’s time. It’s a big deal."
Scientists reveal secrets of scary movies and why we enjoy this top ten
Films like 'Psycho' and 'The Exorcist' make our grey matter continuously anticipate action in response to threat.
World’s oldest mushroom has discovered – smashing previous record by 350 million years
It lived up to 810 million years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and helped kick start life on Earth.
WE’RE ALL ALIENS – Life on Earth came from deep space
Phosphorous, a mineral essential for human DNA and other cell processes, arrived on comets - more than four billion years ago.
Three sentenced over genetically edited babies
He Jiankui, the lead researcher, shocked the scientific world when he announced in November 2018 that he had altered the embryos of twin girls.
Video – Explosion in distant galaxy has broken record for brightest light ever seen
It was emitted by a gamma ray burst - a brief but powerful cosmic blast seven billion light-years away.
Almost nine in 10 Earth-sized planets that orbit two stars ‘could harbour alien life’
Known as binaries, they make up about one in two solar systems - bringing the discovery of extra-terrestrial life a step closer
List of planets that could harbour alien life narrowed down
A pioneering technique combined 3D climate modeling with atmospheric chemistry to identify the conditions that are required