Sci/Environment

Professor Stephen Hawking has told the BBC that he believes the energy emitted from a mini black hole could provide the world with all of its energy requirements. However, harnessing the 10 million megawatts of energy from […]

Anti-fracking campaigners set up a ten-metre-high mock drilling rig in Parliament Square today in protest at the Government’s support for the controversial process.  The rig, featuring a ‘flare’ that fires up every hour, was installed […]

Over the last few days it has emerged that the Zika virus can be traced back to the Rockefeller Foundation, and that the virus itself can being purchased online to anybody holding a level-2 biohazard qualification.  It’s conceivable […]

A meteorite is believed to have killed a bus driver and injured three others in southern India. If confirmed it would be the first recorded human fatality from a piece of space rock. The meteorite crashed […]

In a groundwater leak at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, three monitoring wells were discovered to contain “alarming levels of radioactivity” The Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo has ordered an immediate environmental probe […]

The poaching crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is not only affecting elephants. The giraffe population has now plunged to only 38, putting the species at immediate risk of extinction there, new surveys […]

On March 5th, 2016, asteroid TX68 will be the closest ever flyby of an asteroid to ever approach the earth, researchers at NASA have said.  The asteroid will pass by the planet at a distance […]

An official University of California report has concluded that there is a link between oil drilling and earthquakes.  The 2005 spate of earthquakes in California’s Central Valley was triggered by oilfield injection underground, researchers say Yahoo […]

An ancient fossil sporting an erect penis half the size of his body has been found exquisitely preserved in amber. A distant cousin of modern daddy longlegs has been found fossilized in amber with a […]

Several buildings, including a residential tower, have collapsed after a strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan early on Saturday. Local authorities said they have formed an emergency response center following quake According to the […]