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A new paper in Science used kinematic slip inversion and fault-property modelling to find that the Turkey-Syria earthquake could be traced to a seismic cascade over the east and the north Anatolian fault lines, and that these lines had also been in constant dialogue through the exchange of stress.

THE UK is to return to the European Union’s £85 billion Horizon science research programme following a post-Brexit row.

The Government looks set to announce Britain’s membership of the scheme which it was frozen out of in a post-Brexit row.

The Diamond Light Source, which is 10,000 times more powerful than a traditional microscope, has made ground-breaking health discoveries.

Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

A new study is helping demystify how the solar wind emerges from holes in the Sun.

Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

The Canadian Space Agency's Scisat is a valuable hunter of climate change evidence, producing big-name publications in Nature and Science recently despite its advanced age.

A bizarre new star 43,000 times more magnetic than the sun may have just solved one of science's greatest mysteries