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MURDERED James Bulger’s parents are furious after his killer Jon Venables was granted another full parole hearing – which ...

TODAY the Scottish Government announces its budget. Hard-working Scots will be waiting with bated breath to see what’s in ...

Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

For the first five days, our schedule was lectures in the morning, and then, after lunch, we would go on trips. Our first ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

Childbirth depends not just on hormones, but on the uterus’s ability to sense physical force. Scientists found that pressure ...

There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...