34 h. ago The Cure, Lola Young, Bicep and Massive Attack urge Keir Starmer to block Rosebank North Sea oil field

The letter urges the Government to follow the science and states “any new application to exploit Rosebank’s reserves must be refused”.

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54 h. ago Scientists SOLVE the mystery of why a cup of tea just doesn't taste the same on holiday

If there's one thing Brits are unwilling to compromise on, it's a cup of tea. So it's frustrating that a cuppa brewed abroad never tastes quite the same as it does at home.

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8 d. ago He'd need some LARGE SquarePants: Footage of a sea star with a 'big bottom' sparks hilarity as it's compared to SpongeBob's Patrick

The sea floor is home to all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures. But one in particular has become an online sensation, thanks to its impressive buttocks.

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8 d. ago Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish

After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackledA decade after the onset of a sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic considered the largest ever documented in the wild, researchers have identified the microbial culprit responsible: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.In 10 years, the bacterium has ravaged sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), a large sea star or starfish, along the western coast of North America, with a loss of 5.8 billion since 2013 – or 90% of the total global population. The sunflower sea star is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of critically endangered species. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America

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9 d. ago Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America

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4 w. ago Chaucerian mystery is SOLVED after 800 years: Scientists decode lost English legend to find it was a romance, not a monster

Cambridge University experts say the discovery finally solves the most famous mystery in Geoffrey Chaucer's writings.

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4 w. ago 'Outback Killer' Bradley John Murdoch dies at 67, leaving mystery of Peter Falconio's body unsolved

Bradley John Murdoch, known as the “Outback Killer” and convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio who vanished in arid central Australia 24 years ago, has died

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4 w. ago Donald Trump tells Starmer to 'bring back the oil' and banish windfarms ahead of Aberdeen meeting

Donald Trump is poised for Aberdeen talks with Keir Starmer and John Swinney later this month.

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