The storyIt seems nothing is safe from the wave of council cutbacks sweeping the nation as Pembrokeshire council has just announced that it is planning to start turning off 14 000 of its street lights in order to save money (and cut down on its carbon footprint). More
It was a couple of earth-science stories that caught my attention this week. After the recent earthquakes that shook Japan and New Zealand, predicting where and when the next big seismic event will happen is a holy grail to seismologists. More
Because of the chain of events that have taken place in Japan over the last week, the safety of nuclear power has again come into question. As well as coping with the aftermath of earthquakes and a tsunami, More
Hope has arrived in the UK – hope that is for the thousands of people who suffer from heart failure.
You may have seen the British Heart Foundation’s new campaign on TV recently
February 12th is Darwin Day, the day we celebrate Charles Darwin and his great achievement of proposing the theory of natural selection by evolution. More
It was announced on Tuesday that Boots will be selling home paternity testing kits in all of its stores. These kits have been available over the counter at a few other chemists and online but this is the first time that they have been exposed to potentially millions of people.
Image: Takeaway (wikipedia commons)
(or Happy New Year!)
Thursday (3rd February) will be the start of the Chinese New Year.
On this night will be a full moon (good night for moon-watching) and the celebrations will end 15 days later when the lunar cycle is halfway through and there will be a new moon (not such a good night for moon-watching). More
Image: Nancy Vandermey (Wikipedia.org)
The Sunda cloud leopard (Neofelis diardi) which lives in the forests of Indonesian islands was only named as a new species (distinct from the Neofelis nebulosa clouded leopard that lives on the Asian mainland) in 2007.
Now it has been confirmed that it exists as two sub species – one living on the island of Borneo (N. d. borneensis) and one that is Sumatran (N. d. diardi). More
The storyThe Beckhams announced last week that they are expecting their fourth child and after three boys they may well be hoping for a girl this time. But, in an interview in Vogue which took place before the announcement, Victoria has said that this looks highly unlikely.
But does it? More
The storyBioBricks are DNA sequences which have defined functions and can easily be transferred into the genome of living cells such as E.Coli in order to produce genetically modified organisms. More
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