| UN body rejects bluefin tuna ban A proposal to ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is a sushi mainstay in Japan, has been rejected by a UN wildlife meeting.  'Hobbit' island's deeper history New tool discoveries push back the date for the earliest human occupation of Flores Island, home of the famous hobbit species. Planck spies massive dust clouds Europe's Planck space telescope pictures the colossal swathes of cold dust that spread through the Milky Way galaxy. New exoplanet like 'one of ours' A new temperate planet, found 1,500 light-years away from Earth, has similarities to planets within our own Solar System. Limits of quantum world stretched Scientists have created the largest-ever "quantum state", a result that has implications for quantum physics and computing. News Wizard |