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July 4, 2013
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June 16, 2013
With all this talk of plankton poo ahead of our live Twitter chat on Monday 17 June, we thought we’d show you this creature, which is a type of zooplankton called ‘salp’.
It uses its jelly-like body to filter planktonic food...
June 10, 2013
This photo is of Dee Estuary, which flows into Liverpool Bay situated along the north-west coast of the UK. The scientific rig in the foreground, temporarily positioned on the sand, has been set up by scientists who are collecting data for a...
June 06, 2013
Life and environment: An evaluation of the Gaia Hypothesis
by Professor Toby Tyrrell –
Toby will be signing copies of his book from 6.30pm
In 1972 James Lovelock made an interesting proposal. Life is not solely a passenger on a...
June 06, 2013
This month RRS James Cook is in the deep North Atlantic at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain observatory to study the twilight zone of the ocean.
Just under the sunlit waters of the sea surface, in this twilight zone a tremendous amount of activity is...
June 05, 2013
The discovery of a new species of bird-like dinosaur is giving scientists new insight into the evolution of birds.
The new species is ten million years older than Archaeopteryx, the creature previously considered the oldest bird known to science,...
