The house that Wallace built seeks new owner
The house built by Alfred Russel Wallace after he returned from his exotic travels is about to come on the market. Read more
The house built by Alfred Russel Wallace after he returned from his exotic travels is about to come on the market. Read more
On Sunday, the Antares rocket successfully completed its maiden test flight. Launched from a new pad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the rocket is the largest vehicle to ever take off from the spaceport. Read more
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Politicians in Europe’s parliament today narrowly rejected a plan to revive prices on the region’s carbon market – the world’s largest – which have collapsed in the recession. The decision condemns the carbon-trading scheme to irrelevancy, at least in its current 2013-2020 incarnation, analysts said. Prices will stay far too low to spur the investment in low-carbon energy that was one of the scheme’s key goals when it was launched in 2005. Read more
The United States’ highest court heard arguments today in a long-running debate over the validity of patents on human genes. Read more
Fresh from attending President Barack Obama’s announcement of the BRAIN Initiative at the White House on April 2nd, Society for Neuroscience president Larry Swanson, a neurobiologist at the University of Southern California, composed this letter to SFN’s nearly 42,000 members. Read more
Hawaiian officials have granted a permit for the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) to proceed atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea, project officials announced on 13 April. Read more
A scientific instrument company has pulled off one of the largest business deals of 2013 so far. Read more
DENVER — More hints of dark matter have emerged from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), which hunts for the theorized particles from the depths of a mine in Minnesota. Read more
Russia will give its Roscosmos space programme a whopping US$52 billion boost between now and 2020 in an effort to maintain its position as a leading space power. Read more
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