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If trustees of the UCT fund have "blood on their hands" because of investment in Lonmin then so must trustees of all pension funds similarly invested.
The UK will make publicly funded studies open to all.
A study has found only 30% of radical loss of the Arctic’s ice is due to natural variability in the Atlantic, and it will probably get worse.
While disgraced officials may resign, firing them is tricky. SA’s parties are trying to come up with ways to deal with those who try to brazen it out.
Several times in the past 10 years scientists have had to rewrite the textbooks on Neanderthals, the last species of human to go extinct.
World’s leading thinkers write on what impresses them — from Darwinism to the concept of ‘deep time’
In the latest tell-people-what-they-want-to-hear speech on the election circuit, Newt Gingrich made a remarkable promise: he wants a moon base.
The pseudo-scientific utterances of famous stars are often dangerously misleading or just wrong.
Scientists exploring underwater vents near Antarctica have found a world of creatures thriving in temperatures of 400C°.
Scientists have reacted with cautious shock to results that showed that certain subatomic particles can travel faster than light.
Scientists have worked out how caffeine might offer protection against some skin cancers, a finding that could lead to better sunscreens.
Mothers who sleep on their backs or right-hand sides the night before giving birth are twice as likely to have a stillborn child.
Scientists find abnormalities in key areas of grey matter in the frontal lobes.
The planets, found by researchers at Notre Dame University, in the United States, do not orbit any star.
Scientists have found that passive smoking can raise blood pressure levels in boys.
Research has shown that speaking two languages improves brain performance.
Cut back on tuna and salmon and load your plate instead with herring and sardines if you want to help save the world’s fish.
Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness.
Scientists say they’ve shown that damage done to nerve cells in multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells in the body.
Global carbon dioxide emissions dropped 1.3% in 2009 compared with the previous year, largely owing to the effects of the economic crisis.
