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Climate change will mean fewer fish to catch in the future, study suggests

Warming of the oceans due to climate change will mean that while the fish caught today will still exist in the future, they will not exist in as many numbers, new research suggests. In this context, overfishing would also become easier as population ...

13 Apr 2022 at 01:25

Pharmaceutical drugs are polluting rivers worldwide, study warns

Potentially toxic levels of pharmaceutical drugs have been found in a quarter of river locations examined across the world, a study found. Researchers from around the world surveyed more than 1,000 sites on 258 rivers, from the Thames in London and ...

14 Feb 2022 at 21:25

Study estimates 73,000 tree species on Earth, including 9,200 undiscovered

There are about 73,000 tree species on Earth, including around 9,200 yet to be discovered, scientists have estimated. The worldwide estimate is approximately 14% higher than the current number of known tree species. It is hoped the new findings, ...

31 Jan 2022 at 21:25

Fruit flies prioritise mating over survival, new study suggests

Fruit flies continue to mate even when they are infected with deadly disease, a new study suggests. Fighting illness usually takes up a lot of energy, so infections are typically thought to reduce the amount available for activities like mating....

11 May 2022 at 01:25

Local News

High Court grants Ditch permission to bring proceedings against Donegal County Council

The High Court has granted the publishers of the Ditch permission to bring proceedings against two local authorities it claims have failed to maintain their staff ethics registers. Ditch Media Limited has brought judicial review proceedings ...

04 Mar 2024 at 17:33

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago – study

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago, new research suggests. The study, which focused on an ancient group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, that includes soft corals, pushes back the previous ...

24 Apr 2024 at 01:01

Researchers create new archive of ancient human brains

UK researchers have created a new archive of ancient human brains which challenges ideas of how they are preserved. The record of ancient brains highlights the different environments they can be saved in, ranging from the frozen ...

20 Mar 2024 at 07:04

Europeans were consuming milk 7,400 years ago, scientists find

Milk was first used by farmers in central Europe about 7,400 years ago, research has found. Scientists found dairy fat traces in the walls of pottery from the 54th century BC. This technique targets proteins from animal fat ...

17 Oct 2022 at 20:00

Scotland

More than 60% of violent and sexual criminals avoid prison, statistics show

More than 60% of violent and sexual criminals avoided a jail sentence last year – the highest level in a decade, new Scottish Government figures have shown. Statistics published in the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland ...

21 Jun 2022 at 20:39

Curly hair may have evolved to keep early humans cool, study suggests

Curly hair may have evolved in early humans living in Africa thousands of years ago to help stay cool and protect from the sun’s harmful rays, research suggests. Scientists found that tightly coiled hair provided a ...

08 Jun 2023 at 14:54

Study reveals key cause of restricted blood flow to brain in vascular dementia

Researchers have uncovered a potential route to developing the first ever drug treatments for the second most common type of dementia. The study has shed light on how high blood pressure causes changes to arteries ...

07 Aug 2023 at 20:00

Warming oceans have destroyed many marine parasites, study suggests

Warming oceans have destroyed marine parasites, suggesting they may be especially vulnerable to climate change, researchers say. According to a new study, more than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a ...

09 Jan 2023 at 20:00

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