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This isn’t, however, a scene from any fictional movie, or a daydream, but the reality of the UK as recently as 1998, when the most severe influenza epidemic in living memory swept across the country with savage indifference.

Humanity spreading SO2 around the atmosphere would lead to plenty more acid rain and degrade the ozone layer, so Peter proposes instead that we employ the alternative, smaller particle of benign titanium oxide.

19th century people would customarily spit three times on making eye contact with someone who had a squint, cross-eyed people were seen as ill omens, and those rare women with double pupil eyes were automatically witches

The challenge aims to promote communication between scientists and the general public, especially students using cutting-edge efforts, and continuous technological change opens new ways of presenting data.

It was down to an orbital timing fluke that the May full moon peaked late Saturday night, at the exact moment that the moon passed perigee, which is the closest it ever comes to Earth on its orbital path

Determining habitability of exo-planets is in truth the new holy grail of astronomy - one of the biggest, most confusing, and important issues planetary scientists need to to deal with as this century progresses, because planets on which to aim at placing future human colonies will b...

Space is called space because distances between stars are so vast, and will remain an insurmountable obstacle to human ambition until our science is much more advanced,

An article about the planet mars, its feature and will we able to live on mars?

10 facts about our beautiful solar system that are know to only few

10 interesting facts about the sun. Most don't know about these facts

The fact about what the planet jupiter is made of!

Among a select group of space travelers, Shannon Lucid has amassed more than her share of frequent flyer miles. And veteran of five shuttle missions and 179 days aboard the Russian Mir space station in 1996, Lucid discussed what it is like to live and work in space.

An experimental craft which has been circling the globe Earth at 17,000 miles per hour for over a year now, despite being due to land in California in December

In another breakthrough, lab mice tests have opened the possibility of a vaccine against HIV, genetically modified subjects having fought back the human immunodeficiency virus after being injected with antibody genes.

You might ask yourself what Artic Polar Bears or Seals have to do with you, environmentalist or not, you need to pay attention to what Nature is trying to the the human race.