Science

1970s farm imports of North American signal crayfish still drive plague, bank collapse and native white-clawed decline across England, Wales and Scotland.

Europe’s biggest battery is live in South Lanarkshire, locking revenues that turn Scottish wind constraints into lower costs and a template for more storage.

A Bournemouth study shows rare pioneering pairs drive osprey spread; Dorset translocation created them and saved roughly 60 years of waiting.

Paul de Leeuw of Robert Gordon University says carbon capture needs government money everywhere.

£108,000 Nature Restoration Fund award lets Loch Abar Mòr map rare highland scrub and grow stock that steadies slopes and slows flood water.

University teams from Leicester and Aberdeen validate handheld multi-technique spectrometers on Portsoy’s lunar-like rocks.

Argonne and UChicago open-source PyRET links atomic defects to device light paths, enabling nearly 100x control of energy transfer for optical memory and.

New ice-flow modeling shows Scotland’s six-tonne Altar Stone could reach Dogger Bank by glacier, forcing a human rescue before seas drowned the site.

Twelve days after ignition, the Cairngorms blaze ranks as the park’s worst fire ever, Scotland’s third such wildfire record in four years with no helicopter.

A week after igniting near Ryvoan Bothy, the Cairngorms fire still smoulders, its scale and carbon toll echoing last year’s record Highland blaze.