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Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the silicon chips that power our digital devices.

The nave of Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire is, until February 26 2025, home to three monumental ambassadors from the sea, sculpted by artist Tessa Campbell Fraser.

‘As well as liver cancer, killer cell treatment in the future could be used to treat head and neck cancers, endometrial, bladder or breast cancer’

Results showed that when continents split, the stretching of the continental crust causes stirring in the Earth’s mantle

The new research helps to answer the mystery of how these creatures evolved their distinctive body shape.

Early humans navigated along river channels while on their way to Eurasia, it’s been claimed

Coral reefs thrive in parts of the world’s oceans that are low in nutrients. This mystery has puzzled scientists for centuries and has become known as the “Darwin paradox of coral reefs”.

Police investigate after footage apparently shows three men assaulting a man and a woman

Nisreen Alwan, professor of public health at the University of Southampton and Daniel Ayoubkhani, principal statistician at the Office for National Statistics and the University of Leicester explain how the latest statistics on the Covid pandemic and jobs suggest long Covid could be causing high levels of economic inactivity.