James J. Williams

Giant cosmic explosion from 774 AD left traces only in two cedar trees rings

Scientist Fusa Miyake from Nagoya University, Japan, studied the growth rings of two trees dating back 1,200 years and discovered…

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Hubble Space Telescope works out on when Milky Way will crash into Andromeda

Hubble Space Telescope has been used to work out on when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its…

12 years ago

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the ocean

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has splashed down in the ocean off the California coast. The return to Earth completes a…

12 years ago

Supervolcanoes may form and erupt in just hundreds of years

Supervolcanoes, the largest volcanoes on Earth, may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. Supervolcanoes…

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SpaceX Dragon capsule returns to Earth after one week attached to ISS

SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon returns to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station. The…

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Tomato genome sequencing promises tastier varieties

An international research team has announced that a successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five…

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Tuatara has steak-knife teeth and chews like no other land animal

Tuatara, a reptile living in New Zealand, has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied…

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Tudor era is a historical myth, claims Oxford historian Cliff Davies

"Tudor era" in history is a misleading invention, claims Cliff Davies, an Oxford University historian. Cliff Davies says his research…

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Bluefin tuna at record radioactive contamination from Fukushima nuclear accident

A record radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident has been detected in Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the…

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Olympicene, molecular image of the Olympic rings

An international research team has succeeded in taking an amazing image of a newly synthesized molecule called olympicene. The molecule…

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Easter Island mysterious heads have full bodies

A research team has discovered that the mysterious heads on Easter Island have full bodies, extending down many, many feet…

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Fugitive Humboldt penguin 337 caught on the loose in Tokyo

A one-year-old Humboldt penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium has been caught after more than two months on the…

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SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully attached to the International Space Station

SpaceX unmanned Dragon cargo ship has been successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts onboard the platform used…

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Oldest-known musical instrument discovered in Germany

An international team of researchers has identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world. The flutes,…

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SKA mega-telescope, the world’s most powerful telescope, jointly host by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will host the biggest radio telescope ever built. The nations belonging to the Square…

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Deep-sea explorers warned over spreading sea creatures around the world during exploration

Experts urge deep-sea explorers to take care not to spread deep-sea creatures around the world during exploration of the remote…

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Ichthyostega, one of the first creatures to step on land, could not have walked on four legs, say scientists

British scientists have discovered that Ichthyostega, one of the first creatures to step on land, could not have walked on…

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How street lighting changed ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and bugs

A new research suggests the presence of street lights substantially changes the ecology of ground-dwelling invertebrates and bugs. Scientists trapped…

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DNA test used to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from Yeti and Bigfoot

A British-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot.…

12 years ago

Chimps and orangutans behave like people

Researchers have found that chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people". For years experts have debated whether great…

12 years ago

SpaceX successfully launches Dragon capsule after second attempt

SpaceX has successfully launched Dragon mission to re-supply the space station, the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by…

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Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton sold at auction in New York sparks controversy

A row has broken out over the sale of a Tyrannosaurus Bataar skeleton at auction in New York. The rare…

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Sun starts ring of fire eclipse visible from Asia to Western US

An "annular eclipse" has been viewed across a swathe of the Earth stretching across the Pacific from Asia to the…

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Artic melt releases methane into the atmosphere

Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been trapped by ice for many millennia…

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SpaceX’s Dragon mission aborts launch

The launch of the American SpaceX's Dragon re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed by at…

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