Warming oceans are changing marine habitats – study explores the impact on thousands of species: Every year, human activities release billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These gases trap heat from the Sun, making the Earth warmer than it would be without them. Over 90% of the extra heat from greenhouse gases …
How AI could reveal secrets of thousands of handwritten documents – from medieval manuscripts to hieroglyphics: Have you ever struggled to read what that scrawl between “carrots” and “potatoes” is on your shopping list? Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to help. Over the last ten years, researchers have gradually been working out how …
People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research: Yarlander / Shutterstock Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the case. …
Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights: Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges …
Why thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the UK are now homeless: Yanosh Nemesh/Shutterstock When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of people were forced to leave their homes in search of safety. A year and a half later, many of those Ukrainian refugees who reached the UK are again finding themselves homeless. Government statistics …
How England’s new lung cancer screening could save thousands of lives – expert Q&A: Lightspring/Shutterstock Lung cancer is often caught too late. As a result, it has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers. To detect it earlier, NHS England is rolling out a nationwide screening programme that has already begun in some …
The world needs hundreds of thousands more offshore wind turbines – where will they all go?: We'll need tens of thousands of new turbines if net-zero targets are to be met. Shaun Wilkinson / Shutterstock To reach net zero, the world may need as many 200,000 offshore wind turbines generating 2,000 gigawatts (GW) of energy. …
Thousands of people in the UK are out of work due to long COVID: tommaso79/Shutterstock Almost 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be living with long COVID – after-effects of COVID that can persist for months or even years after the initial infection. Common symptoms include fatigue, breathlessness, muscle and joint pain, …
Sudan refugee crisis: aid agencies face huge challenges as hundreds of thousands flee violence: Refugees who crossed from Sudan to Ethiopia wait in line to register at the International Organization for Migration at Metema on May 4, 2023. Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war …
Thousands of badgers being farmed in South Korea could be a disease risk: Photographer wishes to remain anonymous , Author provided Campaigners in South Korea are celebrating news that the country will ban bear farming by 2026. This follows three decades of uncertainty over an industry dogged by claims of poor welfare conditions, animal abuse …
Climate change protest: a single radical gets more media coverage than thousands of marchers: Gil Scott Heron argued that the Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Yet recently in the UK that statement is being challenged by disruptive environmental protesters unexpectedly gatecrashing live sporting broadcasts. At the end of April, live on ITV the animal rights …
Thousands of unknown viruses discovered in baby poo – why this is not necessarily a bad thing: An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus – ten times the number of bacterial species in the same …
Junior doctors: why pay isn’t the only reason thousands are striking: More than 36,000 junior doctors across England, Scotland and Wales are on strike from April 11-15. This is the second junior doctor strike this year. The key reason for these strikes is pay, with calls to increase junior doctor salaries by 35%. But this …
Why thousands of volunteers are transcribing the notebooks of the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp. But his wild popularity came as much from his influence on popular culture as it did from his contributions to chemistry and applied …
The SNP lost tens of thousands of members under Nicola Sturgeon – here’s why that should worry her successor: Alamy/Xinhua All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind. …
Iran: poisoning of thousands of schoolgirls piles more pressure on Islamic Republic struggling for survival: The Iranian government has announced several arrests in connection with the reported poisoning of more than 7,000 schoolgirls in more than 100 schools around the country. Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has condemned the poisonings, saying perpetrators should be “severely …
Why thousands of people who thought they were British could lose their citizenship: Max_555/Shutterstock Confusion has arisen around the British government’s own understanding of its citizenship laws, following a judgment by the UK’s high court. In a ruling handed down on January 20 2023, in the case of Roehrig v Secretary of State for the …
Ukraine war: attitudes to women in the military are changing as thousands serve on front lines: Ruslan Lytvyn/Shutterstock Thousands of women have voluntarily joined Ukraine’s armed forces since 2014, when Russia’s occupation of Crimea and territories in eastern Ukraine began. Over the past nine years, the number of women serving in the Ukrainian military has …