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Science in the News

1. Science in the News - Tuesday 2 October 2007
   2 Oct 2007
   Tidal barrages could be built in at least four estuaries, including the Severn, to generate electricity and reduce Britain’s reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new report from the Sustainable Development Commission.
2. Science in the News - Monday 1 October 2007
   1 Oct 2007
   The goldfinch is making a comeback, the British Trust for Ornithology has revealed in a survey.
3. Science in the News - Friday 28 September 2007
   28 Sep 2007
   Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, has said that high-energy light bulbs will begin to be phased out from next year, as part of the Government’s practical commitment to reducing carbon emissions.
4. Science in the News - Thursday 27 September 2007
   27 Sep 2007
   Global warming could be slowed by pumping cold water from the deep oceans, helping absorb CO2, according to a new hypothesis by James Lovelock FRS in Nature
5. Science in the News - Wednesday 26 September 2007
   26 Sep 2007
   Conservationists have said they may have identified 11 new species in a remote area of Vietnam, known as the Green Corridor.
6. Science in the News - Tuesday 25 September 2007
   25 Sep 2007
   Acupuncture works better than anything modern medicine has devised for the treatment of back pain, according to German researchers writing in Archives of Internal Medicine.
7. Science in the News - Monday 24 September 2007
   24 Sep 2007
   The first case of the potentially devastating bluetongue virus has been confirmed in a Highland cow near Ipswich. The disease, spread by a biting midge, is considered to be a forerunner to others brought by climate change.
8. Science in the News - Friday 21 September 2007
   21 Sep 2007
   Velociraptor, the fearsome dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park films, had feathers and probably more closely resembled a big turkey than the killer screen dinosaur, according to research in Science.
9. Science in the News - Thursday 20 September 2007
   20 Sep 2007
   Injections of immune cells from other patients could be a new cancer cure, New Scientist has reported.
10. Science in the News - Wednesday 19 September 2007
    19 Sep 2007
    Scientists have warned, at the launch of the latest IPCC report on climate change, that the effects of global warming could come sooner than previously feared.