With forests under pressure from drought, heat, disease and deer, a study has found fewer trees across a range of species surviving to maturity. But scientists say there is still hopeTo the untrained eye, Monks Wood looks...
Read MoreStuart Semple is selling product for £10,000 (or £29.99 to fellow creatives) – but scientists say hue cannot be replicatedA British artist claims to have replicated in paint a colour that scientists say they discovered by having...
Read MoreOxford analysis shows evidence of bloody massacre, with hand and feet bones chewed by human molarsA collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British...
Read MorePeter Kyle, who applied to university three times, said Tory government’s ‘war’ on higher education was overBritain’s future Nobel prizes will come from encouraging young people into university rather than making sandwiches in...
Read MoreNext government urged to lower upfront visa costs that are 17 times higher than international averageTop international researchers cannot afford to take jobs in the UK because of a “tax on talent” that makes it impossible for...
Read MoreOttoline Leyser of UKRI says people in public eye should be able to debate better, with less polarisation and blameThe head of the UK government science body at the centre of a libel scandal has called for “creative...
Read MoreMichelle Donelan had accused two members of Research England’s advisory group of ‘sharing extremist views’ in letter to UKRIMichelle Donelan, the science minister, has apologised and paid damages after accusing two academics of...
Read MoreA 1.3bn light year-sized ring discovered by PhD student in Lancashire appears to defy the cosmological principle assumptionAstronomers have discovered a ring-shaped cosmic megastructure, the proportions of which challenge...
Read MoreFurious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her motherDr Doseline Kiguru, a Kenyan expert in world literature, was overjoyed when she secured a permanent...
Read MoreScience minister Michelle Donelan requests UKRI cuts links with two members of panel she accuses of promoting extremist viewsThe UK’s independent research funding body has become embroiled in a fight with ministers over...
Read MoreRelief at rejoining flagship research scheme tempered by anger over loss of top academics since Brexit Britain may have rescued its scientific fortunes with a last-minute decision to rejoin the EU’s Horizon research...
Read More‘Expected’ return could help retain scientists and researchers lost after grants were cancelled in Brexit rowBritish scientists and academic researchers will be able to reapply to the prestigious European Research...
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