A blogging break for Christmas and the New Year
Thanks for reading the science blog this year. Apart from a couple of days in the office between Christmas and New Year, I’m away until January 11, so the blog should start up properly again that week.
Plant hunting in southern Africa
By Joseph Milton, FT science intern
Iain Darbyshire, a Kew Gardens botanist, recently identified a new plant species while walking through the garden’s glasshouses. The news of his chance discovery, and of the other new species found by Kew botan…
The ethics of biofuels
By Joseph Milton, FT science intern
Members of the public, environmentalists, scientists and businessmen will be asked for their opinions on new types of biofuels as part of a consultation launched today by an independent body that examines the ethi…
WIMPs: A dark matter
By Joseph Milton, FT science intern
The “discovery” of dark matter – the hypothetical, undetectable substance thought to make up around a quarter of the contents of the universe and the majority of the matter in it – has been covered in some new…
Slide show: 2009’s best images from space
Click to see images of Hubble’s revival and other outer-space highlights from 2009.
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