New images reveal fine threads of million-degree plasma woven throughout the Sun’s atmosphere
Researchers at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) unveil highest-ever resolution images of the Sun from NASA’s solar sounding rocket mission
Newly released images of...
Archaeologists date earliest known occupation of North America
A team led by Newcastle University, UK, used analysis of ancient coprolites – fossilised excrement – to identify that samples from one of the...
Prehistoric crocs imitated whales to rule oceans
A group of deadly crocodiles from the Jurassic period came to rule the ancient seas by mimicking not only the shape of whales and...
An orchid growing on a volcano and an underground tree amongst new species named...
74 plants and 15 fungi were named by botanists and mycologists at Kew and at partner organisations around the globe.
They cover everything...
World heritage sites under threat from Climate Change
UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean such as Venice, the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa and the Medieval City of Rhodes are under threat...
Earth’s nearest supergiant is cooling down at the end of its life
In late 2019 the red supergiant closest to Earth, Betelgeuse, began to rapidly fade in brightness. Initially thought to be a sign that the...
Rochdale Schoolboy and MP Call for Tougher Action on Plastic Pollution
After watching a David Attenborough documentary with his grandmother on the amount of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, 8-year-old Jack Adams felt angry and...
Space-based system using GPS satellites could warn of incoming tsunamis
A new method for detecting tsunamis using existing GPS satellites orbiting Earth could serve as an effective warning system for countries worldwide, according to...
Northerners, it seems have always been able to cope a lot better with the...
It seems that Northerners have always been able to cope a lot better with the cold than their southern counterparts.
A new study ,at a...
Archaeologists working on Iron Age experiment uncover the Plastic Age
University of Liverpool archaeologists carrying out an Iron Age experiment in Wales have instead uncovered the ‘Plastic Age’ – the plastic dominated archaeology left...