I built the UK government’s metascience unit — here’s what countries need to know

Staff at Plymouth's aquarium pay tribute to a sand tiger shark believed to be almost 30 years old.

Species’ name comes from stubby shape and ability to secrete an oily substance from its knee joints when alarmed A rare beetle has been rediscovered in Wales after nearly 60 years, conservationists have said. The short-necked oil beetle, driven to the brink of extinction in Britain due to habitat loss over the course of the 20th century, has been found at Castlemartin range in Pembrokeshire, according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW). Continue reading...

Observing interactions between real and virtual rummy-nose tetra fish shows that, within a group, each individual takes cues from only one influential neighbour

A number of birds are also injured after the spill from the oil tank earlier this week.