Strict controls would be "a necessity" to minimise the risk of spills and leaks from any future UK shale gas industry, according to new research.
Environment
Feb 15, 2018
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Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better understanding of the Sun's activity.
Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2017
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Further evidence of the existence of dark matter – the mysterious substance that is believed to hold the Universe together – has been produced by Cosmologists at Durham University.
Astronomy
Apr 21, 2017
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Only a quarter of the shale gas contained in one of the UK's largest reserves might be recoverable because of limited space to develop the wells needed to extract it, according to new research.
Environment
Apr 3, 2017
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Astronomers have developed a way to detect the ultraviolet (UV) background of the Universe, which could help explain why there are so few small galaxies in the cosmos.
Astronomy
Mar 21, 2017
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The Northeastern coast of the USA could be struck by more frequent and more powerful hurricanes in the future due to shifting weather patterns, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2016
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An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2016
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An international team of scientists, led from Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), used new computer modelling of the Universe to investigate the colours that galaxies have and what those colours might tell ...
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2016
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Scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which gravitational waves caused by collisions between the monster ...
Astronomy
Jun 27, 2016
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Scientists have shown for the first time that common bird populations are responding to climate change in a similar pronounced way in both Europe and the USA.
Ecology
Mar 31, 2016
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