Stars form within clouds of gas and dust as they collapse under gravity. Over time, the surrounding dust particles acquire icy mantles which stick them together, forming icy snowballs which gradually grow to form larger-size rocks. Due to the rotation … Continue reading
Tickets are now available for the Universe Story Event which will take place at 10:00 to 17:00 on Saturday 14 March 2015. Programme During the day delegates will hear the complete history of the universe, from its origin 13.8 billion … Continue reading
The fossilized remains of mouse-sized tree-dwelling animals suggest that mammals first appeared in the Late Triassic, more than 200 million years ago, researchers report in Nature September 10, rather than in the Jurassic, which was the previous theory. Reference Three … Continue reading
A report in Science suggests that, contrary to previous ideas of the evolution of feathered birds from dinosaurs with scales, perhaps even the earliest dinosaurs might have had a mixture of feathers and scales. The authors of the report (led by … Continue reading
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On Sun 31 Aug 2014 at 17:00 on BBC Radio 4, will broadcast “Whatever Happened to Global Governance?” by Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford. … Continue reading
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank focused on international governance. Led by experienced practitioners and distinguished academics, CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. Conducting … Continue reading
Astronomers have found evidence for the existence of very large stars in the early Universe. Weighing hundreds of times more than the mass of the Sun, such stars would have been the first to fuse hydrogen and helium into heavier … Continue reading
Hallucigenia sparsa, a strange creature that walked the seas 500 million years ago, may have finally found its family. With its dorsal spines and a head easily confused with its tail, this wormlike animal baffled scientists for nearly 40 years—largely … Continue reading
50 million years ago during the Eocene, the Earth was much hotter than it is now, with levels of greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere far higher than today. There was very little ice on the Earth … Continue reading