Science finds simple way to make lamb leaner
Scientists have found a clear link between the weight of lambs early in their life and meat quality – which is good news...
Turtle’s tale reveals dual fishing threat
The story of a turtle caught twice in fishing nets reveals a dual threat facing many ocean animals.
The female loggerhead turtle, called "Thunderbird", was...
New research shows that Vikings settled in North America a thousand years ago
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The Vikings got there centuries beforehand, although exactly when has remained unclear. Now scientists...
Darwin was right-New study finally proves that birds are more colourful near the Equator
The long-held theory that birds closer to the equator are more colourful than birds nearer the poles has been proven by scientists
The findings, published...
Land plants changed Earth’s composition, say scientists
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth’s continents.
The...
The oldest case of the plague in Britain has been found.
The team, led by the Francis Crick Institute, identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague.
Working with the University...
Music from the stars
NASA data used to produce music mapping spacecraft’s amazing 40-year journey
Music created entirely from data beamed back from the Voyager 1 spacecraft will receive...
Our fluffy companions may have been with us as pets longer than we thought
Wild rabbits are widely thought to have been first tamed in 600 A.D. by French monks, when they were prized as food as a...
New techniques pioneered at Salford University show prosthetics users rely on intact limb
Researchers from the University of Salford have used new techniques to show that people with artificial arms and hands rely heavily on their intact...
100million-year-old fossilised fish slime shakes up our family tree
An international team of palaeontologists, including researchers from The University of Manchester, have uncovered evolutionary secrets hidden in the 100-million-year-old fossil of a...