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Shetland's SaxaVord Spaceport receives £30m government investment
The UK government is investing £30m into the SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst, which will unlock a further £30m in private funding to build two a…
Palaeontologist Dorothea Bate honoured with blue plaque at Natural History Museum
Born in Carmarthen in 1878, Dorothea Bate taught herself palaeontology before becoming one of the first women employed by the Natural Histo…
Eleven-year-old Alyssa Ferrie starts high school after pioneering heart valve procedure
Alyssa Ferrie from Bargeddie has become one of the first children in Scotland to receive a self-expanding VenusP valve through a minimally …
British startup develops battery powered by soil microbes
A British startup called Bactery has created a battery that generates electricity using naturally occurring microbes found in soil. This te…
Network Rail uses thermal imaging helicopters to identify track faults before storms
Network Rail is using upgraded thermal imaging technology on its helicopters to spot infrastructure faults and vegetation hazards across th…
Chelmsford Museum's taxidermy bear helps develop new methods to tackle wildlife crime
Forensic science graduate Hayden Leigh is using hair samples from a 120-year-old museum bear named Boris to refine techniques for identifyi…
NHS trial tests Alzheimer’s drug on healthy adults to prevent symptoms
A new international trial is recruiting healthy adults aged 55 to 80 to test if the drug Trontinemab can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s b…
NHS trial to test if experimental drug can prevent Alzheimer’s in people without symptoms
The Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS foundation trust is recruiting participants aged 55 to 80 for an international trial of the drug Tro…
Cave art discovery suggests the first humans in Ireland arrived from Wales
Researchers have identified 15,000-year-old cave art in south-west Ireland, pushing back the known date of human arrival in the country by …
Ten-year-old George discovers Bronze Age whale fossil at Portmuck Harbour
While searching for fossils on a beach in Islandmagee, ten-year-old George spotted a bone protruding from a bank of earth that has since be…
Imperial College London researchers develop AI tool to detect heart disease from ECGs
Researchers have created software that identifies heart disease by detecting patterns in ECG scans that are invisible to the human eye. By …
University of Leicester researchers help identify 10-sided cloud feature on Saturn
Scientists have identified a decagon-shaped cloud structure at Saturn's South Pole, a discovery supported by infrared data from the Univers…