Articles by Hannah Osborne

Hannah Osborne

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global warming climate change

Global warming is contributing to the surge in worldwide diabetes epidemic

1C rise in global temperatures estimated to account for 100,000 new diabetes cases in US.

Mar 20, 2017

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HIV vaccine and UNAIDS targets could cut new cases from 49 million to just 17.3 by 2035

Mathematical model evaluates future of pandemic – and how many cases could be prevented.

Mar 20, 2017

World Water Day 2016

World Water Day 2017: Theme, key facts and things you can do to save this precious resource

World Water Day is held on 22 March to raise awareness of the importance of freshwater.

Mar 20, 2017

siberia methane crater

Siberia permafrost: There are over 7,000 methane-filled bubbles 'ready to explode' in the Arctic

Huge craters have been appearing in Arctic regions over recent years due to thawing permafrost.

Mar 20, 2017

Nasa cosmos images milky way

Giant ring of galaxies scattered during Andromeda flyby challenges Einstein's theory of gravity

Galaxies are moving away far faster than Einstein's theory can account for.

Mar 17, 2017

Vietnam's Tarzan was raised in the jungle, cut off from civilisation for 40 years. Watch his amazing story here

Ho Van Lang was taken into the jungle by his father at the height of the Vietnam War and lived there until 2013.

Mar 16, 2017

President Trump: The Government Will Have To Learn To Tighten Its Belt

Nasa responds to Donald Trump's budget - it will use the money to fly as far away from him as it can

Space agency said it would be 'reshaping' its focus based on the resources available.

Mar 16, 2017

Donald Trump NASA Budget Climate Change

galaxy dark matter detection

Dark matter has been taking over the universe since the first massive galaxies formed 10 billion years ago

At the peak of galaxy formation, normal matter appears to have dominated the cosmos.

Mar 15, 2017

lab mouse

Obesity and diabetes: Sitting on a whole-body vibration machine just as effective as exercise

Whole-body vibration tested for its benefits in mice and could have implications for human health.

Mar 15, 2017

banana fiddler crab

Little fiddler crabs attract females by waving and drumming at them with their one massive claw

Fiddler crab courtship display helps show how strong they are and what a big home they have.

Mar 15, 2017

Columbian mammoth

Huge mammoth discovered beneath Mexico village reconstructed

Mammoth fossil was discovered beneath Tultepec while drains were being installed.

Mar 14, 2017

bison

Ancient bison fossil reveals US national mammal 'invaded' North America 195,000 years ago

Bison arrived in North America via the Bering Land Bridge and had dispersed across the continent within 20,000 years.

Mar 13, 2017

frozen ice age

Mystery system stabilising CO2 concentrations prevents Earth from freezing over

Scientists find feedback mechanism stops atmospheric CO2 from falling below a certain level.

Mar 13, 2017

earth from space

Geoengineering: What is it, how does it work and is it good or bad?

Scientists have suggested various geoengineering projects to help limit global warming.

Mar 13, 2017

clocks

Clocks go blurry in a quantum world: There is a fundamental limit in our ability to measure time

Nearby clocks disturb each other, which eventually results in a 'blurred' flow of time.

Mar 10, 2017

steel

Super steel with bone-like resistance to cracking under repeated stress created

Laminated nanostructure incorporated into steel prevents it fracturing from metal fatigue.

Mar 9, 2017

Fast Radio Bursts

FRBs: Mystery space signals 'from solar beam powering advanced alien probe'

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics say alien origin 'worth contemplating'.

Mar 9, 2017

Gravitational waves scientist and LIGO co-founder Ronald Drever dies at 85

Colleagues, friends and family pay tribute to Drever, who helped usher in a new era in astronomy.

Mar 9, 2017

El Sidron neanderthal

Dr Neanderthal? DNA from our extinct relatives showed they used aspirin for toothache

Ancient dental plaque of Neanderthals reveals how they used plants as medicine 50,000 years ago.

Mar 8, 2017

time crystal

What are time crystals? New form of matter explained

New phase of matter is mind-bogglingly complicated, but it has implications for quantum computing.

Mar 8, 2017

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