Professors James Crawford and Alan Boyle said that an independent Scotland would have to renegotiate its relationship with international bodies.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A video that shows a bright orb exploding in the sky sparked a UFO mystery in Sacramento, Calif.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA's top expert on near-Earth objects says that new telescope systems are gradually getting a handle on potentially threatening asteroids.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researcher Jared Diamond, the author of "The World Until Yesterday, " says Congress could learn a lesson from tribal societies: Listen to your elders.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: In its official response to a popular online petition, the White House says building a Death Star would be an out-of-this-galaxy waste of money.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Radar observations made during this week's close encounter with the asteroid Apophis have ruled out the risk of a collision with Earth in 2036, NASA says.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "The Blob" from the sun has come and gone, sparking nothing more than beautiful views of the northern lights and there could be more blobs to come.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Russian researchers say they have brought up fresh samples of clear ice from Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a huge reservoir of freshwater more than 2 miles beneath the surface.
MSN: Undersea eruption gives clues to effects of climate change
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago.
MSN: Expedition finds 40 unknown gas seeps off US East Coast
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement calling for the Europeans to provide the service module for the Orion space capsule, the U.S. space agency's crew vehicle for exploration beyond Earth orbit.
MSN: Mars rover survives 'brain transplant' with flying colors
On Monday, Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, published legal opinion from Prof James Crawford of Cambridge University and Prof Alan Boyle of Edinburgh University saying that an independent Scotland would be seen as a separate state under international law.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy.
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