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Neutrinos Are Everywhere. A Physicist Explains.
Dr. Francis Halzen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, sheds some light on the mysterious, subatomic particles that whiz through us everyday.
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Can you solve it? A magical melody from the Mozart of math
Terence Tao teaser timeToday’s puzzle is set by Terence Tao, who may be the world’s most famous mathematician.Tao, aged 51, has been a global phenomen…
Plans to create a wildflower meadow take shape
Fairstead Recreation Ground is being planted with wildflowers to benefit insects and pollinators.
Weary driver creates AI 'litter-tracking dashcam'
Robin Bennett says he created the app after getting frustrated by the amount of rubbish beside roads
The dump detectives on the trail of the fly-tippers
The BBC joins environmental enforcement officers as they sift through illegally-dumped waste for clues.
What do we still need to know about the Tyne nurdle spill?
The spill of 18 tonnes of plastic pellets happened in July but there is still a lot we do not know.
Fire-hit nature reserve 'will never be the same'
Three months on from a devastating wildfire, the RSPB says it will take 20 years to recover.
2026 October 26 – M42: The Great Nebula in Orion
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Hunting Red Leaves with Satellites
A modern satellite makes it possible to pursue the ancient tradition of leaf-peeping in a whole new way. Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory H…
From agriculture to AI-griculture: How tech is changing farming
From remote monitoring of cattle to automation of processes that took up valuable time, farmers in NI are rapidly becoming skilled in technology.
Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe's earliest chapters in detail. To help astronomers un…
Experienced teachers are quitting or reducing their hours—they're struggling to cope
Teacher shortages are affecting school systems in countries across the world. Governments have responded with initiatives to attract graduates into te…
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Assessment tool helps schools look at students holistically
Researchers in the Neag School of Education are bringing a whole child screening assessment to a company that provides schools with a connected set of solutions that turn every student signal into timely, equitable, coordinated and measurable tools to track and manage supports.
In pictures: Storm Boelo leaves a trail of destruction across Scotland
The severe weather brought strong winds and heavy rain to large parts of Scotland.
The aftermath of Storm Boelo across Scotland
Flooding, travel disruption and fallen trees - Storm Boelo has left it's mark across Scotland.
Australian coral reefs face risk of collapse within 50 years without drastic action, global assessment finds
Every shallow-water coral reef ecosystem in Australia faces an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075, driven largely by projected ocean warming, acc…
Supercurrent enables the reading of quantum information without destroying it
One of the fundamental challenges of quantum computing is obtaining information from a quantum bit, or qubit. Unlike a conventional bit, which can be …
Crows make decisions twice as fast as humans and monkeys
University of Tübingen researchers have shown that crows, when confronted with a visual choice, make a decision twice as fast as humans and monkeys. I…
Storms batter Europe, hitting power supplies, flights and phones
Storms battered northern Europe on Sunday, cutting power to more than 150,000 homes, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and silencing pho…
Monarchs report their locations via… cellphone?
Who knew a monarch butterfly could borrow a cellphone to check in with friendly people he met on his journey? That is essentially what happens now tha…
Milky Way's disk grew 'upside down,' with younger stars forming in ever-thinner layers
The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, our galaxy has other phys…
How screening tools measure disadvantage may leave rural communities overlooked for public support
Whether a community is prioritized for public support can depend on how its needs are measured, according to new research from the University of New H…
Two men killed by falling trees as Storm Boelo leaves 90,000 properties without power
An amber wind warning has now expired after severe weather sweeps across the UK.
When will the weather settle after Storm Boelo?
Gillian Smart has the weather forecast after the worst of Storm Boelo.
Patterns of polar vortices discovered in lead-free superlattices on silicon
A team at HZB has, for the first time, reported polar vortices in (BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃)₁₀ superlattices on silicon. These results expand the range of materi…
Protecting children from harm isn't enough—welfare systems must support healing through quality mental health care
In Quebec and across Canada, people working in child welfare do remarkable work to protect children and youth from maltreatment and to support familie…
A few seconds of loading time can push online learners off track
An online lesson takes an extra second to load. The wait may seem trivial, but in a study examining large learning platforms, these brief pauses were …