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18 hours ago | bbc.co.uk | Helen Briggs |Gwyndaf Hughes

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The blackbird is one of the UK's most common and familiar birds, known for its cheerful songBBC environment correspondentBBC climate and science teamA mosquito-borne disease freshly arrived in Britain has spread large distances, with scientists racing to understand the risks to wild birds. Infected insects can spread the deadly Usutu virus to blackbirds, raising fears for the famous songsters.

18 hours ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Helen Briggs |Gwyndaf Hughes

The blackbird is one of the UK's most common and familiar birds, known for its cheerful song [Getty Images]A mosquito-borne disease freshly arrived in Britain has spread large distances, with scientists racing to understand the risks to wild birds. Infected insects can spread the deadly Usutu virus to blackbirds, raising fears for the famous songsters. New data shows Usutu has spread across much of southern England in five years, and has been linked to declines in some blackbird populations.

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Pallab Ghosh |Gwyndaf Hughes

Inside a laboratory nestled above the mist of the forests of south Dakota, scientists are searching for the answer to one of science's biggest questions: why does the Universe exist? They are in a race for the answer with a separate team of Japanese scientists – who are several years ahead. The current theories of astronomy can't explain why the planets stars and galaxies came into existence.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Pallab Ghosh |Gwyndaf Hughes

3 hours agoThere’s a tale told about a miner who found copper cans in his garbage dump in the early days of mining. Wastewater from copper mining had flowed through his land, he said, and turned steel cans into copper. The story might be apocryphal, but the process is real, and it’s called cementation. Montana …