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European ministers back research-buddy plan

18 December 2012 – 20:35 |

Europe’s leading scientific institutions could work with less-developed regions to create a new type of research centre, suggests a proposal backed by science ministers last week.
Under the ‘teaming’ proposal, the partners would put forward joint …

Ice may lurk in shadows beyond Moon’s poles

28 September 2012 – 20:11 |

Water ice on the moon may be more widespread  than previously thought. Permanent shadows have been spotted far from the lunar poles, expanding the number of sites that would be good candidates for exploration by …

How future urban sprawl maps out

18 September 2012 – 15:55 |

Urbanization shapes the environment, but the way in which it does so depends on where and how cities grow. In an effort to forecast how urbanization over the next couple of decades might affect biodiversity …

Fish trawling reshapes deep-sea canyons

5 September 2012 – 20:00 |

Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures. The process rivals landslides and storms as a shaper …