Justin Rowlatt Climate Editor BBC Listen to Justin read this article Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists are dusting down their placards, digging out their infamous fluorescent orange vests, and charging up their loud hailers — a routine they have gone through many a time before. It has taken just three years of throwing soup, spraying…
Maddie Molloy Climate & science reporter Getty Images The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for more than half a century, the European Space Agency…
A boot print on the dusty surface of the moon Public domain sourced / access rights from CBW / Alamy Future lunar bases could be powered by solar cells made on-site from melted moon dust. Building items on the moon, using materials that are already there, would be more practical than shipping them from Earth….
Researchers from the MPIK present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The experimental accuracy reached a level of 0.5 parts per billion. Using an enhanced interelectronic QED method, the theoretical prediction for the g-factor reached a precision…
Space is a favourite setting for many Hollywood films, but just how accurate are their portrayals? Patricia Skelton, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sheds some light on the scientific rigour of her favourite movies. For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space…
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’ Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants – in multiple ways – to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals…
Rebecca Morelle BBC News science team Reporting fromHouston, Texas Kevin Church/BBC Rosemary Coogan is surrounded by a team of people pushing, pulling, squishing and squeezing her into a spacesuit. It takes about 45 minutes to get all her gear on before a helmet is carefully lowered over her head. The British astronaut is about to…
Malcolm Prior, Georgina Rannard, Jenny Kumah BBC Rural Affairs and Climate and Science teams Getty Images Many of the UK’s rivers have hit exceptionally low levels and that could worsen in the next three months, according to the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), raising questions over supplies to households, farmers and businesses. The warning…
Uranus as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 NASA/JPL-Caltech A day on Uranus just got slightly longer, thanks to more accurate measurements of its rotation period that should help scientists plan missions to probe the gas giant. Figuring out the rotation period of the solar system’s giant planets is much harder than for…
The government sets out spending plans on five years of science. Where will the money go? Source link
