Tag: Science

Greatest extinction driven by acidic oceans

UK & World

Peter Laing - April 10, 2015

CHANGES to Earth’s oceans, caused by volcanic activity, triggered the greatest extinction of all time, a new Edinburgh University study shows. The event, which took place...

Iain Banks inspiring space travel

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 26, 2015

SCOTS writer Iain Banks is helping to inspire space travel - less than two years after his death. The celebrated science fiction author has been...

It’s light Jim, but not as we know it

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 22, 2015

SCOTTISH scientists have worked out how to put the brakes on the speed of light. Generations of school pupils have been taught that light slows...

Chimp murder as bad as Mexico say Scots academics

In the Scottish Press

Deadline News Journalist - September 22, 2014

THE murder rate among chimps in the wild is similar to the worst parts of drug-ravaged Mexico, according to Scots academics. A team from St...

Scientists find remains of our ancestors

UK & World

Guest - February 8, 2012

RESEARCHERS at the University of St Andrews have discovered what they think are the remains of our earliest known ancestor. The scientists were part of...