SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Fishing was stopped last year when the quality fell short of the market requirement. Last month, the Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir announced a series of measures for the Lough Neagh eel fishery, to ensure long-term recovery of stocks.The...

Chatbots are designed to make you feel like your conversations are personal. They're highly agreeable, and over-friendly, and simulate the experience of chatting...

Who doesn't love a banana in their smoothie? It adds sweetness and does wonders for the texture. Well, not Rhonda Patrick, who proudly...

Seals, sea lions and walruses — collectively known as pinnipeds — are the only mammals with excellent hearing both above and below the water. The evolution of this unique ability occurred nearly 26.7 million years ago — about 100 million...

The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK's largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its funding and could now close, the BBC understands.The observatory and its network of telescopes have been pivotal to the country's study...

Andy Burnham has told the BBC "the NHS will collapse" if social care is not reformed but he said he could not put a timeline on changes.In his first major interview since becoming prime minister, Burnham said he would...

Burnham first proposed a universal system of social care in England in 2009 when he was health secretary under Gordon Brown. He has vowed to spend political capital on the issue as prime minister.However, he is not the first...

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the 2040s. This large infrared/optical/ultraviolet space telescope will be the first observatory specifically designed...

A tiny microbe has been making a lot of Americans sick. Really sick. Just ask Jessica Mallard. "I wasn't feeling well. The pain in my stomach was, like, unbearable," she said.The parasite is called cyclospora,...

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m.,...