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Lightning strikes in the Arctic tripled from 2010 to 2020, a finding University of Washington researchers attribute to rising temperatures due to human-caused climate change. The results, researchers say, suggest Arctic residents in…

First CHARM-EU master's programme starts in September: Global Challenges for SustainabilityOn 1 September 2021 the CHARM-EU master's programme Global Challenges for Sustainability will start. This innovative and international programme…

The Welsh countryside may see a major increase in forest cover within a decade due to the effect of Brexit on sheep farming, new research suggests.In a paper published in Land, a team from the University of Reading modelled how the UK…

Amphibians, such as frogs, toads, salamanders and newts, in particular, have become the iconic example of human-induced extinctions, given that their declines exceed those of any other group of animals on Earth. Smaller amphibians have…

New research has revealed four million children live in a family which has lost income since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of those, 1.6 million children live in a family which has lost a third or more of its total household income,…

A project to save valuable theatre and live art records from being lost during the pandemic, has received funding from The National Archives.The grant of £25,179 will allow the University of Bristol Theatre Collection to identify…

A new centre established by the University of Bristol to help protect citizens online has created a shared data science framework to help law enforcement investigate organised crime.The white paper, published today (March 22) by REPHRAIN,…

Today the historic Union Pacific No. 4141 Engine, a locomotive painted to match Air Force One, is reaching its final destination at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.A blanketed No. 4141 pulled into College Station on…

NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming today named Angie Kamath, University Dean at the City University of New York (CUNY), as Dean of NYU’s School of Professional Studies, effective July 1, 2021.Hamilton said, “SPS…

Mapping neural activity to corresponding behaviors is a major goal for neuroscientists developing brain–machine interfaces (BMIs): devices that read and interpret brain activity and transmit instructions to a computer or machine. Though…