‘Healthy’ beavers re-released on to a Devon river, UK’s only wild beavers
Five healthy beavers have been re-released on to a Devon river, the Devon Wildlife Trust announced, expressing ‘delight and relief’. These are the only...
Congestion charges urged for Scotland to meet climate change targets by Committee on Climate...
While praising Scotland for making progress towards meeting greenhouse gas emission targets, congestion charges should be implemented by the Scottish government to secure its...
Massive salamander prehistoric ancestor was top predator 200 million years ago
A distant relative of today’s salamanders, a massive crocodile-like amphibian that existed during the rise of the dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, was...
Huge explosion in the sky 345 years ago was a stellar collision, not a...
In 1670, European astronomers saw a spectacular explosion in the sky, which the European Southern Observatory says was not a nova, but a much...
‘The Map that Changed the World’ unearthed by an archivist 200 years later
The first geological map of a country ever produced and previously thought lost has been uncovered by an archivist at The Geological Society of...
Boeing ‘force field’ as seen in Star Trek registered at US patent office
The Boeing Company, the aerospace and defence giant, has obtained a patent for a Star Trek-style “force field” technology aimed at protecting military vehicles...
Giant 400-km wide asteroid impact zone discovered in Australia
An asteroid that broke in two moments before crashing into Earth created a 400 kilometre (248 mile) wide impact zone in Central Australia, researchers...
Woolly mammoth could make a comeback using cloning techniques, geneticists say
After inserting 14 Woolly Mammoth genes into the DNA of a modern Asian Elephant, Harvard University geneticists say we are a step closer to...
Welsh are closest relatives to early settlers of Britain, DNA study shows
The Welsh are genetically the most closely matched to the early settlers of Britain who started arriving about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago just...
SNP would call the shots over a minority Labour government, Salmond said
Scottish National Party former leader Alex Salmond, in what looked like a powerful propaganda weapon for the Tories, said the SNP would use its...