Archive for February 5th, 2010

Back by popular… reluctant suggestion(s)

Ha ha! You thought the interweb was rid of rude, offensive (and mildy creepy) comic strips? HA HA! Think again! Cock and Bull WILL return in a couple of weeks to regain the Throne of Inane Banter. Bevare!
And not only that, in addition a whole new character will be introduced, FREE of charge! So [...]

Pluto Changes

New imagery released by NASA from the Hubble Space Telescope shows that Pluto is undergoing significant seasonal changes. Once considered a member of the Solar System’s 9 planets, Pluto has since been downgraded to a “dwarf planet”, yet its study remains of great interest.
In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons mission will perform the closest ever fly-by [...]

February Hot Topics Live!

3 new stories have been added to the Intute hot topics service; these articles are written exclusively for Intute by David Bradley Science Writer.
This month’s features include:
Golden Cat
http://www.intute.ac.uk/hottopics/2010/02/golden-cat/
This feature looks at the use of a gold complex in the synthesis of ethylene; this confers significant environmental benefits over the current method of cracking crude oil. [...]