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SUNDAY 11. JANUARY 2015


Food for Mars

Team ‘Seed’ wins chance to send a type of cress on board unmanned mission to Mars to investigate growing sustainable food source Continue reading...


SATURDAY 10. JANUARY 2015


SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral - video

The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning. An unmanned Dragon spacecraft packed with food and equipment for the International Space Station is expected to reach the station on Monday. However, the larger mission to land the rocket used in the launch on a barge out at sea was a failure Continue...

This is not a measurement

“The birth of an idea” solicits vignettes where scientists describe a special moment in their professional lives, or the genesis of an idea which they still cherish. Contributors include Stephen Hawking, colleagues from the Large Hadron Collider, and many from other areas of science. I was asked to contribute too, so here it is Continue...

Panda-mania

Helping you observe “Caturday” and to help you get into the proper mood for the weekend, I must share some short videos of pandas doing what I wish I could do right now: enjoy the snow. Continue reading...


FRIDAY 9. JANUARY 2015


The great white shark is in danger – but technology could save it

Ocearch, a non-profit organisation, is tracking sharks and other predators to focus conservation efforts. You can keep tabs tooIt might be huge, streamlined and powerful, but the great white shark is in danger. An estimated 100 million sharks, including great whites, are killed every year, threatening to throw our oceans, their populations and habitats into disarray. “They’re the balance...

The cruellest coffee: student turns to crowdfunding to aid the exploited civet

A PhD student is raising money to study the palm civet, whose wild populations might be at risk as demand for a controversial coffee risesIt funded the first smartwatch, it brought Veronica Mars to the silver screen. Now crowdfunding could make a controversial coffee easier to palate. Made from beans found in the droppings of a small carnivore known as the common palm civet, Kopi Luwak is said to...

Winter suns, anyone? Nasa produces vintage travel posters for newly discovered planets

The US space agency has created a series of striking travel posters inviting tourists to visit recently discovered “exoplanets”, including Kepler-16b, which orbits two starsIf ever there was a destination worthy of a winter getaway, then it’s Kepler-16b, “the land of two suns”. The planet, discovered in 2011, is one of three exoplanets (planets that orbit a star other than our sun),...


THURSDAY 8. JANUARY 2015