18 June 2013 Last updated at 17:40 By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Some of the UK’s leading experts have been analysing our unusual weather patterns The UK’s recent run of damp summers could be down to a cyclical warming of the Atlantic Ocean. That was the view of scientists and meteorologists who gathered…
19 June 2013 Last updated at 10:32 Radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank at the plant last month High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed Strontium-90 was present at…
19 June 2013 Last updated at 05:08 By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News This favorite 2006 image of Saturn includes Earth as a speck just inside the G-ring at upper-left. In the coming picture, Earth will be lower-right. Dr Porco hopes it will look even better Nasa’s Cassini probe is going to try to…
19 June 2013 Last updated at 03:42 By Michelle Warwicker BBC Nature Burying beetles mate and breed on animal carcasses they find on the ground Mature males make “better” fathers in burying beetles, a study suggests. Researchers found older males work harder at parental care and mating compared with younger males. Older males also maintained…
19 June 2013 Last updated at 01:04 By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC World Service Researchers found that it takes one or two people to start – and end – a round of applause The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests. Instead scientists have…
19 June 2013 Last updated at 03:38 By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website The crab was named after the frequently bare-chested actor David Hasselhoff A hairy crab named after David Hasselhoff hitched a ride on an ocean “highway” to cross from the Pacific to the Atlantic millions of years ago. The crabs reproduce…
18 June 2013 Last updated at 02:08 By Helen Briggs BBC News Rates are rising in men Action is needed to fight a “quiet epidemic” of oesophageal cancer, which is on the rise in the UK, particularly among men, cancer experts say. Men are almost three times more likely than women to get the cancer…
18 June 2013 Last updated at 08:19 By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Paris The 2016 orbiter will probe the atmosphere and provide data relay for the 2018 rover Europe’s plans to explore Mars with a satellite in 2016 and a rover in 2018 have taken a big step forward with the signing of…
18 June 2013 Last updated at 10:50 By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News Echoes bouncing off walls revealed the shape of a cathedral The shape of a room can be modelled using echoes produced from sound, new research has found. Like bats who emit sounds in order to navigate, researchers can now plug sounds…
17 June 2013 Last updated at 07:07 By Owain Clarke BBC Wales health correspondent Prof Yves Barde will further his research into the use of embryonic stem cells A £50m project to attract world-class scientists and their teams to Wales has made its first appointment. Prof Yves Barde, from Switzerland, is renowned for his research…
