Astronomers discover new planet

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Astronomers in the US say they have found a new planet in orbit around a star 41 light years from Earth.

Longest-living creature yet discovered

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Researchers from Bangor University in north Wales have discovered a clam dredged off the coast of Iceland aged between 405 and 410 years.Scientists said they calculated its age by counting rings on its shell.
Tags: clam, Science, Scientists

Eighty million years without sex

Friday, October 12th, 2007

UK scientists led by Dr Alan Tunnacliffe of the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge,have solved the mystery of how an animal has survived for 80 million years without sex.Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, University of Cambridge said to the BBC that “There could be some benefit to millions of years without sex after […]

Mars in the Morning: Red Planet Grows Brighter

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

You’ve probably heard that line before – no doubt fairly recently, thanks to a bogus e-mail that unfortunately received wide circulation on the Internet this summer with promises of Mars being as big as the full moon.
But this fact is absolutely true: Mars, the only planet whose surface we can see in any detail from […]