Covid-19 news: Wales rows back omicron restrictions as cases fall
A man wears a Wales face mask on Queen Street in Cardiff, WalesMatthew Horwood/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 1pm on 14 January Wales...
What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris
Bottlenose dolphins are “hypersexual creatures”imageBROKER / Alamy Stock Photo Patricia Brennan has forged a controversial career in studying the twist and turns of the evolution...
Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound
The ancient Egyptians were adept at bandaging dead bodies during the mummification process, but we have had no evidence of the way they dressed flesh...
Outsider wins DARPA challenge to predict where floats drift at sea
A competition to forecast the locations of 90 floats drifting in the Atlantic could lead to better methods for tracking oil slicks and locating shipwreck...
James Webb Space Telescope has finished unfolding its massive mirror
The space telescope has successfully completed a series of crucial steps to achieve full deployment, and will now continue to its final destination 1.5 million...
UK’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator
The largest ichthyosaur fossil ever found in the UK has been unearthed in the Rutland Water Nature Reserve Life 10 January 2022 The ichthyosaur skeleton...
Spider fossil sheds light on Australia’s ancient rainforest ecosystem
A suite of plant and animal fossils from a site in New South Wales date back about 16 million years to a time when the...
Record levels of greenhouse gas methane are a ‘fire alarm moment’
Average atmospheric concentrations of methane reached 1900 parts per billion last September, the highest in nearly four decades of records Environment 7 January 2022 Wetlands...
World’s smallest land snail could fit inside a grain of sand
Angustopila psammion is the smallest known land snailContributions to Zoology 2022 A newly discovered snail species is the smallest yet found on land. Angustopila psammion,...
Energy crisis: What can the UK government do to help cut fuel bills?
Protesters demand action on fuel poverty in London in November 2021Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The shock of rising energy bills due to sky-high...
Kazakhstan unrest takes down a fifth of global bitcoin mining network
The second largest bitcoin mining nation in the world has cut off internet access, slashing the amount of computing power dedicated to the cryptocurrency Technology...