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Question Time was brought to a chaotic end on Thursday night (20 March) after noise from an apparent protest at the University of Reading campus threatened to drown out audience members and panel guests.

Experts warn any spill could severely affect marine life, seabirds, and fragile ecosystems in and around the Humber Estuary

Victims say ‘water was already here’ by the time warning was issued, as military prepares to start searching worst-hit areas

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time modern teens do.

Ice Age teenagers entered puberty at roughly the same age as teens today

Polymer hydrogels interfaced with an electrode array prove capable of 'learning' how to get higher scores.

Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather map. The site became part of the Met Office network in 1921 and began regular meteorological and magnetic recording, which…

It's estimated that more than 53,000 people have fled extreme violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, which equates to 80 percent of the city's population. Haiti has been without a president since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021. The country has been ravaged for decades by poverty and natural…