SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Eleanor Layhe, Jemma Woodman and Ella Rule,South WestTrudy PolkinghornThe regulator did not inspect the home until three years after Eileen's death, downgrading it to "requires improvement".A coroner's report in 2023 found the home's manager did not accept many of...

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting.The birds exhale with each strike, much like a tennis pro groaning through a stroke. Elaborate coordination between those breaths and muscles across the body keep their hammering at a perfectly...

Adoption of new tools and technologies occurs when users largely perceive them as reliable, accessible, and an...

Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that “boards” a superconducting material...

A lion that lost one leg to a poacher’s snare has defied the expectations of conservation scientists by adopting...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by...

Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions – and global temperatures with them – keep rising.When it seems like we’re...

PA MediaEarlier in the day, Prince William met the 15 finalists during a visit to the Christ the Redeemer statue, where he posed for a photograph on the same spot his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, did 34...

The ancient trick of grafting one plant onto another could find a very modern use – enabling gene editing...