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 The first solar aircraft should make a full world tour in 2011, according to one of the sponsors of the project. Jean Cai, vice president of Deutsche Bank China, the main sponsor of the solar aircraft project, said that the aircraft will perform a world tour in 30 days, by posing once on each continent.
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 According to a recently published British study, the change of route that certain birds are forced to perform because of global warming may cause adverse consequences for these species.
Apparently, the study argue that many migratory birds between Africa and northern Europe, have been required to expand its route.
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 Brazil, with EL15% of the world flora, owns 15% of plant species threatened with extinction. Unlike the data provided by the government in the past year, which mentioned only in the number of endangered species to 472.
Deforestation, fires and urbanization, would cause that would be involved as indicated by a study by 175 scientists from 55 institutions in Brazil and abroad, the main reasons why is endangered local flora.
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 Since the recent decision of the Krummel nuclear plant near Hamburg, political parties and the operator of the plant Vattenfall tear regarding its application to permanently shut down. In particular, the Greens and the SPD want Krummel so definitely the grid, by deferring to other nuclear power he had to produce according to the law on atomic energy (Atomistic ) until its closure in 2016 officially scheduled. Instead, the Minister President of Baden-Wurttemberg, Gunther Oettinger (CDU) wants to keep as Krummel nuclear future.
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In the process of vision that are at work in higher mammals, some proteins of the retina have the property to undergo a slight rotation under the effect of light they receive. Chemists at the University of La Rioja (UR, in Logrono) were inspired by these proteins, and more precisely their chromophores parties to develop molecules which, when illuminated by visible light, change of conformation (rotation of a portion of the molecule relative to another, see figure) and thus behave as molecular switches.
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