Fossilised log reveals secrets of 120 million-year-old polar forests
The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like
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Health officials issue warnings as UK bakes in the first heat wave of 2025
British health officials are warning people across the country to take precautions when out in the sun as the U.K. has its first heat wave of the year.
Sunshine abounds as the summer solstice arrives
Summer gets its official start in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the summer solstice.
Axolotl Discovery Brings Us Closer Than Ever To Regrowing Human Limbs
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A team of biologists from Northeastern University and the University of Kentucky has found one of the key molecules involved in axolotl regeneration. It’s a crucial component in ensuring the body gro…
Expedition to ‘real home of the pirates of the Caribbean’ hopes to unearth ships and treasure
Exploration of Bahamas seabed will be first time notorious New Providence hideout has been searchedThe Pirates of the Caribbean is a $4.5bn swashbuckling film franchise and Blackbeard and Calico Jack Rackham are among marauding buccaneers who have capt…
Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds
Volatile weather patterns may be altering taste of juniper berries – a key botanical in the spirit – scientists sayThe flavour of a gin and tonic may be impacted by climate change, scientists have found.Volatile weather patterns, made more likely by cl…
Utility workers uncover 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy in Peru’s capital
Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface.
Utility workers uncover 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy in Peru’s capital
Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter from the surface.
Archaeologists unearth historic remains of American schoolhouse for Black children
The Williamsburg Bray School taught hundreds of mostly enslaved students in the 1760s
Nature Journal Mandates Public Peer Review For All New Research Papers
Nature will automatically publish peer review reports and author responses alongside all newly submitted research papers starting this week. The flagship scientific journal previously offered transparent peer review as an optional service since 2020, w…