Category: 7. Science

Posted on Friday 9th January 2026

An £115,000 highways project in Cannock is due to begin next week (12 January).

Highways crews will be working on the eastbound carriageway of the A5190 Lichfield Road, between Devon Road and…

We all know trees are climate heroes. They pull carbon dioxide out of the air, release the oxygen we breathe, and help combat climate change.

Now, for the first time, our research has uncovered…

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. 

Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, according to a report released…

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine mechanism in bony fish that signals ovulation from the ovaries to the brain, using the medaka fish as a…

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of these is whether Earth is the only place that harbours life.

In the last 30 years, the question of whether the Sun…

When engineers want to make a metal stronger, one of the most reliable strategies is to use smaller grains – the microscopic crystal regions within the material. But when deformed at extreme speeds, this rule flips and metals with very small…

The closest planet to the Sun is Mercury. It’s a tiny world, even smaller than Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. That’s unusual for a planetary system. Most star systems have a large world between the size of Earth and…