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Top airlines and tour operators keen to shore up their green credentials nowadays offer customers carbon offsets to compensate holiday pollution. The problem is that few tourists seem eager to write off their 'green guilt'.  Oceans warming faster than we thoughtThursday, 19 June 2008
The world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and U.S. climate researchers reported yesterday.  Clutch of super-Earths discoveredTuesday, 17 June 2008
Five 'super-Earths', each of them many times bigger than our planet, have been discovered in a trio of distant solar systems, European scientists say.  A new look at exotic cosmology phenomenaWednesday, 11 June 2008
A high-tech telescope NASA plans to launch tonight will fling open a new window on the universe, exploring extreme sources of gamma-rays that point to powerful and exotic phenomena.  Chinese devise quake prediction methodsTuesday, 10 June 2008
Scientists in China are calling for improvements in earthquake prediction, including the establishment of an early-warning system and methods to share quake information.  Curious 'quasiparticles' baffle physicistsFriday, 6 June 2008
Israeli physicists have discovered bizarre 'quasiparticles' which have one quarter the charge of an electron, and may be useful in quantum computing.  Mobile phones reveal maths of human movementThursday, 5 June 2008
Scientists searching for patterns in seemingly random human movements have found that people, for the most part, go about their daily lives with mathematical regularity.  Nanomembrane rapidly mops up oil spillsSaturday, 31 May 2008
Devastating oil spills may one day be mitigated by a paper-thin nanomembrane, which has an incredible affinity for oil, and can soak up 20 times its own weight.  Phoenix flexes robotic armFriday, 30 May 2008
NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to search for life.  Remote-control phones listen in to rare birdsTuesday, 27 May 2008
An innovative Australian project is using a network of mobile phones to monitor a population of rare birds and send the data back to researchers.  Mars lander prepares for perilous descentFriday, 23 May 2008
After a nine-month journey through space, the U.S. probe Phoenix will land on the arctic surface of Mars on Sunday to dig for ice in a new quest for signs of life on the Red Planet.  Powerful jumping robot unveiledThursday, 22 May 2008
A tiny robot that leaps like a grasshopper and can clear 27 times its own height has been unveiled at an international robotics conference. Researchers suggest they could be deployed to explore other planets or warzones.  Hydrogen-powered phones available by 2010Thursday, 22 May 2008
French researchers have nearly succeeded in commercially developing a hydrogen fuel cell for use as a backup power source for mobile phones.  Nanotubes present asbestos-like riskWednesday, 21 May 2008
Tests on lab mice have revealed that carbon nanotubes, which are already in commercial use, can lead to lesions similar to those caused by asbestos.  Tasmanian tiger gene fragment resurrectedTuesday, 20 May 2008
DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger has been successfully extracted and used to resurrect a functioning version of a gene fragment in a mouse. 
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