News | Archive (June 2007)
Tectonic signatures at Aeolis Mensae
— 28 Jun 2007 | AstronomyThe High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic... — full story
Earth and Mars are different to the core
— 28 Jun 2007 | AstronomyResearch comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28 June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth's core formed under very... — full story
Wood ant queen has no egg-laying monopoly
— 28 Jun 2007 | BiologyThe reproductive monopoly of the ant queen is not as strong as is often thought. Dr Heikki Helantera and Prof Lotta Sundstrom, biologists working at the University of Helsinki, Finland,... — full story
Female iguanas pay high costs to choose a mate
— 27 Jun 2007 | BiologyPicking a mate is not easy - if you are a female iguana. In a study published in the 27th June issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Maren Vitousek of Princeton University... — full story
Swift sees double supernova in galaxy
— 26 Jun 2007 | AstronomyIn just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules. Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions... — full story
Atlantis due to return to Earth
— 22 Jun 2007 | AstronomyFollowing an 8-day visit to the International Space Station, Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to land in Florida later today. Yesterday's landing opportunities at NASA's Kennedy Space... — full story
Samba and Tango flying closer than ever for better science
— 22 Jun 2007 | AstronomyAfter weeks of manoeuvres, Samba and Tango, two of ESA's four Cluster satellites are now orbiting in formation, separated by only 17 km. This is the closest two ESA satellites have... — full story
Bone-crushing wolves of Alaska disappeared long ago
— 22 Jun 2007 | Geology and palaeontologyThe ancient grey wolves that once roamed the icy expanses of Alaska represented a specialised form that apparently died out along with other big animals at the end of the Pleistocene,... — full story
Northern forests less effective than tropical ones in reducing global warming
— 22 Jun 2007 | EnvironmentForests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a study... — full story
New view of lower mantle of the Earth
— 22 Jun 2007 | Geology and palaeontologyLaboratory measurements of a high-pressure mineral believed to exist deep within the Earth show that the mineral may not, as geophysicists hoped, have the right properties to explain... — full story