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Science in the News

141. Science in the News - Wednesday 14 March 2007
     14 Mar 2007
     Tony Blair has hailed the new Climate Change Bill as a major step forward in the fight against global warming. Britain will become the first country in the world to commit to legally binding targets for reductions, which the draft Bill sets at 60 percent by 2050.
142. Science in the News - Tuesday 13 March 2007
     13 Mar 2007
     Gordon Brown has admitted that he may have underestimated "the scale of the challenge" on climate change, as he produced a package of more voter-friendly energy-saving measures.
143. Science in the News - Monday 12 March 2007
     12 Mar 2007
     A star count conducted by the Campaign to Protect Rural England has shown that light pollution is making it harder for ordinary people to observe the heavens.
144. Science in the News - Friday 9 March 2007
     9 Mar 2007
     Subliminal messages do affect the brain, but not as much if it is busy with other things, a University College London study has reported in Current Biology.
145. Science in the News - Thursday 8 March 2007
     8 Mar 2007
     An international team of scientists has carried out the widest survey yet of genetic errors that cause cancer tumours to grow, opening the way for a new generation of drugs.
146. Science in the News - Wednesday 7 March
     7 Mar 2007
     The Sustainable Development Commission has reported that Government departments have almost universally failed to meet green targets on emissions.
147. Science in the News - Tuesday 6 March 2007
     6 Mar 2007
     In a speech at the University of Cambridge, David Miliband has set out new proposals on the environment, including the possibility that motorists could face limits on their carbon emissions.
148. Science in the News - Monday 5 March 2007
     5 Mar 2007
     Oxygen could be harmful if administered to patients who have had a heart attack, New Zealand’s Medical Research Institute has said in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
149. Science in the News - Friday 2 March 2007
     2 Mar 2007
     Leicester and Yale researchers have concluded that a line of 13 towers in the Andes mountains is the remains of a 2,300 year old solar observatory, Science reports.
150. Science in the News - Thursday 1 March 2007
     1 Mar 2007
     Stamps have been issued by Royal Mail depicting inventors including Thomas Telford FRS.