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Electric vehicle grants scheme backfires as taxpayers subsidise £87,000 sports cars

Slow roll-out of electric vehicles means pricey Tesla Roadster and Mitsubishi i-Miev will be only two car ...

Monday, March 1,2010

Thirteen countries meet in bid to save wild tiger

Aim of the three-day meeting is to convince countries to pledge to spend more on tiger conservation and s ...

Wednesday, January 27,2010

Pick your own vegetables in the High Street

Pick-your-own vegetables to replace flowers in high street. Climate change and food shortage issues promp ...

Tuesday, January 12,2010

Saudi Arabia is Running out of Sand?!? Global Warming or Plain Greed?

This is something that would make Lawrence of Arabia turn in his grave: Recent studies are now showing th ...

Wednesday, December 16,2009

Staying slim 'could save the world'

If the thought of an imminent beach appearance is not enough to kick-start you into shedding a few pounds ...

Monday, November 30,2009

Forget Fields - the Future of Farming May be in Urban High Rises

Imagine a full-scale farm right in the heart of New York City, in the deserts of Darfur or on the moon. ...

Tuesday, November 24,2009

More than 17,000 new underwater species found

A ten-year compilation of a census of the deepest seas has discovered sea angels, jewel squid and a 2m-wi ...

Tuesday, November 24,2009

Can we manipulate the weather?

Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wis ...

Wednesday, November 4,2009

Open Rotor Engines - Loud but Energy Efficient

NASA and General Electric have teamed up with French industry to revive a type of fuel-efficient aircraft ...

Monday, September 14,2009

Good Algae

Aurora Biofuels said that it has succeeded in optimizing its base algae strains to more than double CO2 c ...

Tuesday, September 8,2009

Tesco's are matching shopping behaviour to the weather

LONDON — Britain often conjures images of unpredictable weather, with downpours sometimes followed by s ...

Wednesday, September 2,2009

Copying the Leaf - Cost Effective Solar Power

It is one of evolution's crowning achievements - a mini green power station and organic factory combined ...

Thursday, August 13,2009

Saturn's Moon May Hide Watery Caverns - And Life?

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus could contain watery underground caverns! Saturn's icy moon Enceladus could c ...

Tuesday, August 11,2009

California fires up laser fusion machine

Laser Fusion Facility to save humanity? The $3.5bn National Ignition Facility (NIF) sits in a 10-storey b ...

Friday, July 24,2009

The One Cup Wonder

Boffins at Leed University are about to trial a Washing system which uses 90% less water than conventiona ...

Friday, July 17,2009

Scientists grow plants in salty water

The research saw scientists enhance genes already present in plants which lock sodium ions into the roots ...

Friday, July 17,2009

A hint of Lime in your sea?

Putting lime into the oceans could stop or even reverse the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere, accord ...

Monday, July 6,2009

MET Office Funding Cut

The Met Office, home of UK weather soothsaying, is getting its climate research budget chopped by a quart ...

Friday, July 3,2009

Chinese to send algae into battle against carbon

The garish gunk coursing through a greenhouse filled with transparent pipes appears to belong on the set ...

Wednesday, July 1,2009

Solar Power to go Orbital?

Science Fiction or Science Fact? Jules Verne once Jules Verne once wrote a science fiction novel about sp ...

Posted under: Technological Innovation

Monday, June 15,2009

Nokia - Charging Phones with Radio Waves

Switching off Standby... Standby mode is often accused of being the scourge of the planet, insidiously ...

Posted under: Mobile Phones