Tag: science

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 15:25 UTC

  Mussels, an invasive species, have been found in South Shetland Islands Antarctic waters

  

  Mussels are the first-ever invasive species to take up residence in Antarctica, as found by a new study published last month in Scientific Report. According to the study, scientists found a colony of mussels, most likely transported accidentally to the frozen continent from Patagonia via ship, some 75 miles north of the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazil scientists racing to finish a particle accelerator, fourth generation synchrotron Sirius

  

  Brazilian scientists are racing against time to finish building a particle accelerator the size of the Maracana football stadium before government funds run out or it is superseded by rival technology.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  The centennial anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse, a feat of Brazilian and British astronomers

  

  May 29th marked the one hundred year anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse. Six minutes of darkness a century ago put Brazil and the UK at the heart of what was possibly one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Seeing the unseeable: This is the very first picture of a black hole

  

  A world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope zoomed in on the super-massive monster in the galaxy M87 to create this first-ever picture of a black hole.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

  Brazil's scientists furious with budget cuts limiting research and “expelling the brightest from the country”

  

  Brazil’s government has triggered fierce criticism from scientists after announcing plans to tackle economic stagnation by implementing a government-wide budget freeze that could see research funding cut by up to 42%.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 06:51 UTC

  Mars rover work-out controlled in Chile from more 11.000km away in UK

  

  A space control center in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile’s Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency’s centre in Oxfordshire completed a series of tests across nearly 11,000 km in order to see how the Mars rover reacts to commands across large distances.

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  “Good” insects declining dramatically while houseflies and cockroaches’ boom

  

  Scientific review of insect numbers suggests that 40% of species are undergoing “dramatic rates of decline” around the world. The study says that bees, ants and beetles are disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles. But researchers say that some species, such as houseflies and cockroaches, are likely to boom.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:13 UTC

  Left hand fingers' test and a propensity to be lesbian

  

  Women whose left index and ring fingers are different lengths are more likely to be lesbians, a study suggests. Scientists measured the fingers of 18 pairs of female identical twins, where one was straight and the other gay.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  UK Secretary of State for Scotland in Chile to reinforce bilateral relations

  

  David Mundell MP, Secretary of State for Scotland is currently in Chile where he arrived on Wednesday to reinforce the existing close links between the UK and Chile, including trade, science and innovation, defense and green growth.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  UK tests life-saving chemical detection robots and drones

  

  A new fleet of robots and drones designed to test for chemical agents, provide 3D mapping and identify casualties have been put through their paces by British troops, police officers and scientists for the first time.