[ad_1] Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent, British Antarctic Survey, CambridgePNRA/IPEVThe end of the ice cores are a 1.5 million year or even older time capsuleAn ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital information about Earth's climate.The glassy cylinder is the planet's oldest ice and was drilled from deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet.Frozen inside
[ad_1] Rebecca MorelleScience Editor andAlison FrancisSenior Science JournalistWatch: BBC goes behind the scenes at Kew Gardens ahead of major Palm House renovationIt's a makeover on a massive scale - it involves moving 1,300 plants, replacing 16,000 panes of glass and cleaning up hundreds of tonnes of iron.This is the ambitious £50m plan to renovate the world-famous Palm House, which sits at the heart of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.The hot
[ad_1] Helen BriggsEnvironment correspondentBBCJames Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk. Sometimes he sat in the branches too.Canton, a lecturer at the University of Essex, recalls how it helped him feel a "sense of connection". "We're happier sat in an oak tree ten foot from the ground, watching blue tits
[ad_1] Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondentProf Daniel J Mayor @oceanplanktonA tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking an epic migration, according to new research.These "unsung heroes" called zooplankton gorge themselves and grow fat in spring before sinking hundreds of metres into the deep ocean in Antarctica where they burn the fat.This locks away as much planet-warming carbon as
[ad_1] Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentLiverpool John Moores University. NatureTests on the skull could give new insights into ancient historyA DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.An analysis of his skeleton shows he was 60 years old and possibly worked as a potter, but also that a fifth of his DNA came
[ad_1] Tim DoddClimate and science reporterGetty ImagesRecord low water levels in the Amazon basin disrupted drinking water for thousands of peopleFrom Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report.Describing drought as a "silent killer" which "creeps in, drains resources, and devastates lives in slow motion" the report said it
[ad_1] Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent andGwyndaf HughesScience VideographerHow the researchers hope to create human DNAWork has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.The research has been taboo until now because of concerns it could lead to designer babies or unforeseen changes for future generations.But now the World's largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, has
[ad_1] Pallab GhoshScience correspondentBBCInside an anonymous building in Oxford, Riley Jackson is frying a steak. The perfectly red fillet cut sizzles in the pan, its juices releasing a meaty aroma. But this is no ordinary steak. It was grown in the lab next door.What's strangest of all is just how real it looks. The texture, when cut, is indistinguishable from the real thing."That's our goal," says Ms Jackson of Ivy
[ad_1] Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Victoria GillBBC News Science Team Getty Images / Maxar Technologies.Iran's Natanz nuclear site has been a target of Israel's airstrikesUS warplanes have bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, the same places Israeli planes had targeted in its ongoing war with Iran.One of the targets was Fordo, a uranium enrichment plant hidden in a remote mountainside that is vital to Iran's nuclear ambitions.Key nuclear facilities
[ad_1] Rebecca MorelleScience editor andAlison FrancisSenior science journalist Watch: the fine art of an exquisite 2,000 year-old Roman jigsawArchaeologists have pieced together thousands of fragments of 2,000-year-old wall plaster to reveal remarkable frescoes that decorated a luxurious Roman villa.The shattered plaster was discovered in 2021 at a site in central London that's being redeveloped, but it's taken until now to reconstruct this colossal jigsaw puzzle.The frescoes are from at least
