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.

These are the adorable pictures of a polar bear cub swimming for the first time at a Scottish wildlife park. The cub is the first polar bear to be born in the UK in the past 25 years. Polar bear cub at the Highland Wildlife Park, Scotland having a swim with mother Victoria.  The three-and-a-half-month-old cub, based at the Highland Wildlife Park, splashed around with its mother Victoria. The adorable cub, born to mother Victoria in December, has remained nameless...

In the light of recent tensions, and the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin last night, Alexandre Garese, The French investor, assesses the prospects for doing business in Russia Assessing the current relations between Moscow and Paris, French investor Alexandre Garese told journalists that, despite the external political pressure and multiple sanctions, more convenient conditions for doing business have taken shape in Russia. Whilst the current political landscape sensitive, he believes a deeper warming between the countries can be seen...

Amidst the furore that is the Australian ball tampering scandal many of us have failed to notice that a rather enthralling test series is about to draw to an equally dramatic close in Johannesburg. After four 5 day games and countless hours of cricket that has produced some captivating moments the game looks to be tipping in favour of the hosts, although the prognosis has changed almost daily since the first ball was bowled in Durban at the start of...

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...