Jodrell Bank’s Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
The Jodrell Bank Observatory, which has housed the UK’s largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its…
In Pictures: Bill Oddie, conservationist who found fame as one of The Goodies – London Evening Standard
In Pictures: Bill Oddie, conservationist who found fame as one of The Goodies London Evening StandardBill Oddie: The Goodies…
For decades a single whale has called at a frequency no other whale answers, and no one can say whether it is truly alone or simply speaking a language the rest of the ocean cannot hear
The story begins with a sound, not a sighting. Somewhere in the North Pacific, a whale was recorded…
‘Otter’ man refusing to pay water bill over Bristol river sewage faces court
‘The Otter’ – who wants to remain anonymous – owes £1,200 after boycotting Wessex Water’s bill for more…
Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus : ScienceAlert
Whatever astronomers glimpsed during a brief observation of Venus in 2010 was not supposed to be there. During…
Africa Alive welcomes arrival of two newborn animals
Africa Alive saw the birth of a pair of red river hoglets earlier this month. The wildlife park…
Why budding birders are flocking to Shazam-like apps to identify avians
Megan Szostak, 26, was always a “bird kid”. The urge to watch and appreciate the world around her…
Pembrokeshire waste fees linked to fly-tipping rise
Pembrokeshire currently ranks 13th in Wales for collection costs. More than 1.26 million incidents of illegal dumping have…
Starwatch: The summer triangle returns to the northern sky | Space
In the northern hemisphere we know that summer is truly upon us when the summer triangle appears overhead.…
Around 30 million years ago, a tree-climbing predator became the earliest true cat; lions, tigers and house cats emerged from the lineage it began
Image Credit: Facebook/ @Ark Encounter The cat family has developed into one of the most successful predator groups…
Physicists Built a Spacetime Crystal – And Then Watched It Melt : ScienceAlert
We tend to think of melting as a relatively straightforward process – a solid material’s gradual slide towards…
Weather tracker: Why Europe’s wildfires are proving so fierce and difficult to stop | Spain
A combination of an unusually wet winter, very low rainfall since spring and repeated record-breaking summer heatwaves is…