- Guardian Unlimited Science
- 13/11/11 13:12
A Russian space capsule carrying the Olympic torch and three astronauts returns to Earth on Monday from the International Space...
A Russian space capsule carrying the Olympic torch and three astronauts returns to Earth on Monday from the International Space...
Death did little to dent Jumbo the Elephant's popularity. When his skin and skeleton went their separate ways, he became the stuff of legendHenry...
This week on the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast presented by Alok Jha, we hear from celebrated mathematician Edward Frenkel on his passion for numerical calculation. Frenkel discusses his new book Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, a love letter to the beauty of maths and why we need to see great works of mathematical genius with the same openess and wonder that we engage with great...
Radioactive tracers identify fatty plaques in the arteries that can lead to dangerous...
About 25% of the satellite likely to have fallen into the sea after the rest burned up on re-entry, space agency...
SUNDAY 10. NOVEMBER 2013
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 November 1913Fungus – the word suggests poisonous, morbid growths on the decaying vegetation of summer: pallid, unhealthy-looking organisms flourishing in the season of decline upon the death of others. Beauty is seldom associated in our minds with the word fungus. Yet how beautiful many of them are in form and colour; how they show life...
The lack of recent progress in cleaning urban air can be blamed on the steady increase in diesel vehicles our roads; over half of new cars are now diesel, compared to just 14% in 2000.It is harder to control pollution from diesels than from petrol, and for this reason, European standards for diesel exhaust have not been as strict as those from petrol cars. Access to low emission zones in Germany...
Russian cosmonauts take the Olympic torch on its first ever spacewalk ahead of the Sochi...
The index card: Professor Paul M Stewart offers some golden rules that can help you to dodge poor health, expensive gym fees and trouble with the...