Public research university based in Reading, England, with academic departments spanning sciences, humanities, agriculture, and meteorology.
El Niño cut India's summer monsoon rainfall by 13 per cent, New Scientist reported. UK farms that have just had record heat and drought are expecting a warm, wet, stormy winter from the same event.
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University of Reading researchers pooling 22 studies find ozone cut pollinator performance by 42% on average and nitrogen oxides by 46%. Diesel cars stay on the road for more than 20 years after sales end, so the NOx share of that harm is set to run well past the UK's 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars.
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University of Reading researchers killed all 64 Campylobacter strains they tested, antibiotic-resistant ones included, using low-power violet-blue light. Whether it can replace chemical washes on carcasses depends on meat trials still to come.
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National Literacy Trust survey data show 50% of multilingual respondents read daily, against 29% of those using only English at home. The gap supports putting home-language books into reading-for-pleasure schemes, though a two-group survey cannot show what causes it.
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Australia's Darwin ash-advisory centre used ESA's EarthCARE lidar to confirm that Anak Krakatau's westward plume sat near 15 km, as forecast. That check brought a satellite built to study clouds and Earth's energy balance into aviation advice in near-real time.
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Dinodontosaurus turns up outside South America for the first time, in Tanzanian rocks that also hold the world's oldest dinosaur candidates, and the South American sequences it matches carry younger radiometric dates.
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Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda, described from bones a British expedition collected in the 1960s, extends a South American genus into Tanzania. The shared genus argues that those Tanzanian beds are no older than South America's.
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Squid fossils from the Western Interior Seaway push the group's known Cretaceous range to the other side of the globe, about a million years before the asteroid impact that has long been credited with spreading them.
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The eastern Pacific is running 2.1 C above average on weekly NOAA data, past the 2 C mark for a super event. The official strength category comes from three-month averages, and the regional outlook comes with a caveat attached.
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A HEPI survey puts generative-AI use on assessed work at 94% of UK undergraduates, and the educators Nature canvassed have largely stopped hunting for it, setting tasks instead where a model's output does not fit the evidence in the room.
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A preprint says meltwater pulses are bending the jet stream toward western European heatwaves. It offers no size for the resulting model error, and another group disputes the cause.
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EU rules require AI firms to mark generated text by 2 December, and vendors will comply. Researchers say light edits strip the marks, so any policy built on detecting them is built on sand.
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