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Picture of soybean fields

Greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is on the rise

Published
Monday 18th November, 2019
Categories
Environment
Science

During the last two decades agricultural practices and nitrogen-rich fertilisers have significantly increased the amount of nitrous oxide emissions in the atmosphere, according to a new study.

Children playing wallops (nine-pins) in the street at Castle Bolton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, 1964. A group of men can be seen sitting on a bench, watching men from the village playing quoits on the grass verge.

Can you tell ferntickles from branny-speckles?

Published
Friday 8th November, 2019
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A small army of volunteers is to be recruited to help update the most comprehensive survey of England’s dialects ever undertaken, thanks to an injection of funding.

A robot arm attempts to navigate a number of objects on a table top, in order to get at an apple.

Worker robots that learn from mistakes

Published
Monday 4th November, 2019
Categories
News
Technology

Practise makes perfect ­– it is an adage that has helped humans become highly dexterous, and now it is an approach that is being applied to robots.