Mountain high
China is to remeasure the height of Everest. The official height of the world’s tallest mountain stands at 8850 metres, and it should be growing by 1 centimetre a year because of tectonic action. A new survey is needed because of suggestions that glacier melting caused by global warming has caused the peak to slump by 1.3 metres.
Hubble trouble
Rumours that the Hubble Space Telescope is to be scrapped just won’t go away, despite NASA’s promises to keep it running. The ageing telescope needs regular servicing to stay in orbit, but a number of sources report that…
