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Antarctica is shrinking because the sea floor is being eroded - by warm water. Global warming is causing vast swathes of the land underneath the frozen continent to be carried away - leading to structural instability in the great ice sheet. Now entire cliffs of ice that have stood for millions of years are breaking off and falling into the ocean, because the land they were built on has been subject to rapid erosion. Research by the UK Centre for...

Astronomers have captured an image of the most distant star ever seen - nine BILLION light years away. The star, named Icarus, is so far away that the light the boffins saw was twice as old as planet Earth. Experts at UC Berkely in California discovered the star thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, which provided a window of opportunity to view the star. The sighting was made possible due to a phenomenon called 'gravitational lensing', which allows far away...

The experts revealed that there are surprisingly high numbers of female paedophiles who abuse kids online - who account for up to a third of all groomings.

Pupils, in deprived areas, are "filling their pockets" with food from school canteens, in desperation, due to poverty. These troubling findings have been gathered from a survey of 900 heads, teachers and school support staff of the National Education Union (NEU). Nearly nine out of ten (87%) say that poverty is having a significant impact on the learning of their pupils and 60% believe that the situation has worsened since 2015. Worryingly, of these a third (33%) think it has...

Scientists have developed a skin-like material that can change colour - like a chameleon. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) discovered the novel product through a number of tests on an experimental material. Skin protects the body in a number of ways, including by rapidly stiffening in order to prevent injury. The new discovery revealed an elastic material that can tense like skin, with the added ability to change colour. In skin, a number of...

Donald Trump's proposed US-Mexico border wall could devastate surroundings wildlife, according to experts. Conservation biologists at The University of Texas at Austin found that a border wall could harm endangered plants and animals - and destroy the region's growing ecotourism industry. The scientists examined what would happen if more of Texas' roughly 1,200 miles of border with Mexico were to be walled off. Many miles of new barriers are set to be built on federal lands, most of which are...

The Home Office has been called on to help a five-year-old with epilepsy whose mother says cannabis oil is the only treatment that can ease his suffering. Karen Gray, 43, launched a petition for Cannabidiol (CBD) oil to be prescribed to her son Murray, who was diagnosed with Myoclonic Astatic Epilepsy last year. The mum-of-three said she feels she has hit a "brick wall" in her attempts to convince the NHS to provide the treatment for Murray - who can...

  Fishermen are kicking off because naughty dolphins keep wrecking their nets - and stealing their catch. New research has discovered fishing nets suffer six times more damage when dolphins are around. And the problem is only going to get worse for fishing fleets, as overfishing is forcing dolphins and boat captains closer together than ever before. University of Exeter researchers studied the impact of bottlenose dolphins on fisheries off northern Cyprus. They said Mediterranean overfishing had created a "vicious...