Some articles which I found interesting over the years:
- 'Just like Armageddeon' Dust storm sweeps across eastern Australia Mail Online
- Amateur photographer captures the electrifying moment lightning strikes his neighbour's boat Mail Online
- Ardi skeleton found in Ethiopia is closest thing to 'missing link' between humans and apes Mail Online
- BBC NEWS Science & Environment Tiny ancestor is T. rex blueprint
- Brave window cleaners take on the challenge of the world's tallest skyscraper, Dubai's Burj Khalifa Mail Online
- Cities at night from space photographed by NASA astronauts on the International Space Station - Telegraph
- Has the mystery of the Mars 'Monolith' been solved Mail Online
- Images from history Rarely-seen photographs bring 1800s London back to life Mail Online
- Injecting oxygen into cancerous tumours 'improves chances of recovery' Mail Online
- Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire Mail Online
- Nasa finds monster black hole sucking up gas, dust and stars at centre of galaxy - Telegraph
- New eco homes boast £80-a-year energy bills Metro.co.uk
- On top of the world! Sensational satellite images capture Earth's natural wonders from space Mail Online
- Pictured Giraffe sticks his neck out for breakfast at manor house Mail Online
- Pictured Ram-bo Amazing abseiling sheep tries an unorthodox method of attracting ewes Mail Online
- Plane beautiful The day the Red Arrows were upstaged by Mother Nature Mail Online
- Rare footage of the Sun erupting released - Yahoo! News UK
- Sharpest ever images of Betelgeuse reveal how explosive red supergiant loses mass Mail Online
- Surf's up Daredevil photographer captures monster 8ft wave just moments before it crashes to shore Mail Online
- Grandmother Sheila Penfold lands monster 214lb catfish to enter record books | Mail Online
- Sheila Penfold, who stands at just 5ft 3in and is registered blind, was nearly dragged into the river when the monster catfish took her bait during a holiday in Spain.
- BBC News - 'Milestone' for wave energy plans
- Seven companies are to push forward plans to generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity from wave and tidal power.
- Harry Potter: 'invisibility cloak' prototype created by scientists - Telegraph
- A prototype "invisibility cloak", similar to those worn by fictional wizard Harry Potter, has been developed by European scientists.
- Defender of the realm: Britain's £1.2bn submarine - and typically, we can't afford it... | Mail Online
- This is the best submarine in the world. It is virtually undetectable, has reinvented the periscope and sonar, and doubles as a floating GCHQ. It also happens to be British.
- Spintronic transistors - Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Turning Quantum Dots Into Spintronic Transistors
- From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society
- The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in early morning dew | Mail Online
- Captured in extreme close-up, this dragonfly appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a leaf.
- Volcanic ash cloud: 100,000 Britons stranded in Europe as air traffic chiefs extend lockdown to 7am | Mail Online
- British Airways today cancelled all flights in and out of the UK until at least Monday, as volcanic ash started to fall across the country. At least one million Brits are believed to be trapped abroad and experts say the cloud is will cover more of Britain overnight.
- Superspy in the sky could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells | Mail Online
- A Top-secret US unmanned drone used to locate Al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in Pakistan and Afghanistan could soon be patrolling over British cities to search for hidden terror cells.
- BBC News - Web security attack 'makes silicon chips more reliable'
- An attack on a widely used web security system could soon help make silicon chips more powerful and reliable.
- Man 'Survives Without Food' For 70 Years - Yahoo! News UK
- Indian doctors are studying a remarkable 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent the last seven decades without food and water.
- Quantum wonders: The field that isn't there - physics-math - 08 May 2010 - New Scientist
- You have to think about where an electromagnetic field isn't, as well as where it is, as far as particles are concerned
- Worm ‘menorahs’ may repair brains
- Israel-US study finds how gene “sculpts” neurons.
- BBC News - Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'
- A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.
- Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists have no idea why | Mail Online
- The gas giant is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
- Walking on the wild side: Photographer's stunning photos up close with nature's most dangerous animals | Mail Online
- While he may look cuddly, it would take just a few swift movements for the tiger to swipe the photographer behind the lens with his huge paw. For he is lying just inches away from the majestic beast.
- Fate or fluke? Air crash sole survivors - CNN.com
- Some will see it as divine intervention, others a simple quirk of fate, fortune or physics, but one boy's cheating of death in an air crash in Libya this week adds another name to a small roll call of aviation disaster sole survivors.
- Artificial life created by genome pioneer sparking moral dilemma | Mail Online
- Scientists have created artificial life. In a world-first, Craig Venter, a maverick biologist and billionaire entrepreneur, has made a designer microbe from scratch.
- Nasa shuttle Atlantis and space station seen passing in front of Sun | Mail Online
- A cursory glance would tell you there was nothing much going on in this picture. But look a little closer and this extraordinary image shows, in the top right-hand corner, the Space Shuttle docking at the International Space Station.
- World's first battery fuelled by air - Telegraph
- The world's first battery fuelled by air - with 10 times the storage capacity of conventional cells - has been unveiled.
- Crop circle season arrives with a mathematical message - This Britain, UK - The Independent
- It is perhaps little known that the beautiful county of Wiltshire, famed for Stonehenge and the white horses carved into its hills, is the most active area for crop circles in the world, with nearly 70 appearing in its fields in 2009.
- BBC News - Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
- Europe's Planck space telescope produces its first full-sky image, a key step in its quest to decode the
- BBC News - US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles'
- There may be more than one version of the elusive "God particle" - or Higgs boson - according to a new study.
- Football-shaped 'buckyballs' found floating in space for first time | Mail Online
- Astronomers had always believed that buckyballs existed in space, but they had escaped detection until now.
- Gel that can help decayed teeth grow back could end fillings | Mail Online
- The gel, which is being developed by scientists in France, works by prompting cells in teeth to start multiplying.
- Kieron Williamson makes £150,000 in 30 minutes by selling new batch of paintings | Mail Online
- Buyers from around the world paid between £1,825 and £7,995 each for the 33 pictures painted by talented Kieron Williamson.
- Creepy crawlies: Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders - Telegraph
- Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders.
- BBC News - Fate of Universe revealed by galactic lens
- A galactic magnifying glass shows the Universe will probably expand forever, resulting in a slow death.
- Breathtaking Britain: Nature's beauty from dusk til dawn | Mail Online
- using a panoramic film camera in the magic hours of sunrise and sunset, Mark Denton has captured England’s greatest landscapes for his new book England: The Panoramas.
- BBC News - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a 'mini-Big Bang'
- The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a mini-Big Bang by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
- Large Hadron Collider creates 'mini Big Bang' | Mail Online
- The 'Mini Bangs' were produced by smashing together lead ions - atoms of lead stripped of their electrons - together at enormous energies.
- Giant space bubbles baffle astronomers - Telegraph
- Two giant gas bubbles - each one 25,000 light-years wide - discovered in our galaxy are baffling astronomers.
- The £2.2billion superlab where scientists are creating a star on Earth | Mail Online
- It may look like any average building but behind closed doors could lie the answer to safe renewable energy of the future.
- BBC News - Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists
- The antimatter version of a hydrogen atom has been held in place for the first time, allowing the study of fundamental physics, scientists say.
- BBC News - Dark energy and flat Universe exposed by simple method
- Researchers have developed a simple geometrical method to add weight to the idea that ours is a flat, dark-energy-rich Universe.
- Brute force: Huge 1,000 ton boulder carried down mountainside by power of Icelandic volcano | Mail Online
- The giant stone was released by ice in a glacier that melted thanks to the fantastic heat produced the erupting volcano.
- Snow Dec 2010 - Brrritain: snow causes travel chaos in the UK as the cold snap continues - Telegraph
- Snow causes travel chaos in the UK as the cold snap continues.
- A bridge too far? China unveils world's longest sea bridge which is five miles FURTHER than the Dover-Calais crossing | Mail Online
- The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge links the main urban area of Qingdao city, East China’s Shandong province, with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas.
- Earth 'to get second sun this year' as supernova turns night into day | Mail Online
- Earth will undoubtedly have a front row seat when the dying red supergiant star Betelgeuse finally blows itself into oblivion.
- BBC News - Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own hand
- An operation to control epilepsy leaves Karen Byrne with no control of her left hand, a condition known as Alien Hand Syndrome.
- Quantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across Time | Wired Science | Wired.com
- In the weird world of quantum physics, two linked particles can share a single fate, even when they're miles apart. Now, two physicists have
- Relief at the pumps: Revolutionary hydrogen fuel could cost just 90p per GALLON (and it will run in existing cars) | Mail Online
- With current petrol prices at 128.6p per litre, the new hydrogen-based fuel could offer much-needed respite for motorists.
- The £1-a-day red wine wonder pill to combat heart disease and cancer | Mail Online
- Makers Biotivia claim the resveratrol supplement – derived from an antioxidant found in grape skins and naturally present in red wine – is as beneficial as exercise.
- Winter storm: Map shows most of Northern Hemisphere covered in snow and ice | Mail Online
- It looks like a graphic from the Discovery Channel about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - half covered with snow and ice.
- Tiny water flea Daphnia pulex has 31,000 genes, more than any other animal | Mail Online
- The common water flea - Daphnia pulex - is the first crustacean to have a blueprint made showing the sequence of chemicals that make up genetic code, or genome.
- Rare glimpse into world's biggest wind tunnel that blows gusts twelve times the speed of sound | Mail Online
- Shrouded in total secrecy, massive wind tunnels that test the resistance of European aircraft have been opened up and photographed.
- Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars
- The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star formation.
