Archive | July 12th, 2008

Correct me if I’m wrong!!

Posted on 12 July 2008

Heard the one about the eight-year-old Swedish boy who was told he had to invite everyone in his class to his birthday party, whether he liked them or not?

Last Christmas, towns in England were told to have “Happy Holidays”…

Big Brother: The Google cars that will photograph EVERY front door in Britain

Posted on 12 July 2008

Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a ‘gross invasion of privacy’.

The internet giant’s StreetView website will allow anyone in the world to type in a UK address or…

Rare Microorganism That Produces Hydrogen May Be Key To Tomorrow’s Hydrogen Economy

Posted on 12 July 2008

An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow’s hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department…

Woolly mammoths ate their own dung

Posted on 12 July 2008

They lived in frozen wastelands with sparse food supplies, but Woolly mammoths had a dirty habit that may have helped them delay their eventual extinction – they ate their own dung.

Palaeontologists have gained a fresh insight into the diet…

Satellite tracking lets nature enthusiasts follow Ospreys around the world

Posted on 12 July 2008

Fans of Britain’s longest-running wildlife soap opera can keep in touch all year round in future thanks to satellite technology.

Events at Loch Garten in Scotland’s Spey valley have fascinated nature enthusiasts world-wide for the half a century since ospreys…

Human society could ‘learn much from bees’

Posted on 12 July 2008

Humans could learn much about health, public transport and peaceful living by observing the behaviour of bees, the leader of Britain’s first bee-keeping research lab has claimed.

The sophisticated societies built up by the highly-social insects are to be studied…



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