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Scientists reconstructed the face of ‘Conquest Man’, a 1,000-year-old skeleton buried just 13 years after the Norman Conquest

Buried around 1079, Conquest Man's identity has been revealed through scientific analysis. His ancestry offers insights into his journey across Europe, showcasing a unique blend of Scandinavian artifacts with those linked to a Norman church. This finding complicates the simplistic Saxon versus Norman narrative, emphasizing resilience and adaptability in the…

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Britain’s quarter century: shrinking families, ethnic tensions and queer winners and losers

In this third part in our series on how the UK has changed in the past 25 years, we turn to demographics, immigration, social attitudes and LGBTQ+ lives.

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Henry Nowak Records Chilling 'Bad Man' Snapchat of Vickrum Digwa Hours Before Murder

The University of Southampton student unknowingly recorded a brief exchange with Vickrum Digwa before the confrontation turned deadly.

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‘No justice, no peace’: Protests erupt in UK after British-born Sikh Vikram Singh's conviction in Henry Nowak murder

The conviction of British-born Sikh Vickrum Singh Digwa for the murder of 18-year-old University of Southampton student Henry Nowak has sparked street protests over the legal right of Sikhs to carry kirpans in public.

The Times of India

Wooden platform found hidden under Neolithic artificial island in loch

The island is situated in a loch on the Isle of Lewis.

Evening Standard

Archaeologists reveal secrets of artificial island older than Stonehenge in Scottish loch

A stone causeway, now underwater, leads from the loch shore to the island

The Independent UK

Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life

To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked like a blinding white snowball. This seems an unlikely cradle for life, yet new evidence suggests the frozen ocean featured restricted ice-free oases that provided a lifeline…

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Drastic seaweed growth threatens marine life and fishing – but also offers opportunities

Large blooms of seaweed are increasingly being reported along coastlines globally, from Europe and Asia to the tropics and beyond.

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Shock in Southampton as Henry Nowak, 18, Becomes Latest Teen Victim of Street Stabbing

Henry Nowak, 18, a University of Southampton student, was fatally stabbed in Portswood after celebrating with football teammates. Two charged with murder.

International Business Times UK

Supermassive black holes ‘may not be as massive as previously thought’

Scientists from University of Southampton say they may have been overestimating size of the celestial giants after a new discovery.

The Independent UK

New evidence suggests surprise reason behind fall of Roman Empire

Discovery of ‘unusual rocks’ may confirm an ice age caused the fall of the Roman empire

The Independent UK

Brown trout can pass beaver dams, study finds

The research monitored fish movements in two streams in northern Scotland – one modified by a series of four beaver dams and the other unaltered.

Evening Standard

How sand mining is eroding rivers, livelihoods and cultures

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the silicon chips that power our digital devices.

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Art, music and science combine at a new whale exhibition at Winchester Cathedral

The nave of Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire is, until February 26 2025, home to three monumental ambassadors from the sea, sculpted by artist Tessa Campbell Fraser.

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An intergalactic mystery that stumped scientists for decades is close to being solved

How galaxies, which look similar to bulging footballs emerged, has been at the centre of research for decades

Evening Standard

Mystery of how giant galaxies formed could be close to being solved

Scientists from the University of Southampton believe galaxies crashed together to create gigantic elliptical galaxies.

The Independent UK

Vitamin D supplements in pregnancy shown to improve bone density in childhood

Researchers said bone density scans showed they contained more calcium and more minerals, making them stronger and less likely to break.

Evening Standard

‘Utterly unique’ Bronze Age hoard saved for the nation

The Peebles Hoard was discovered by a metal detectorist in the Scottish Borders in 2020.

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Scientists working on cancer vaccine that uses immune system’s ‘killer’ cells

‘As well as liver cancer, killer cell treatment in the future could be used to treat head and neck cancers, endometrial, bladder or breast cancer’

The Independent UK

Scientists solve mystery of some of Earth’s most dramatic landscapes

Results showed that when continents split, the stretching of the continental crust causes stirring in the Earth’s mantle

The Independent UK

Starfish bodies may more closely resemble a head, study suggests

The new research helps to answer the mystery of how these creatures evolved their distinctive body shape.

The Independent UK

Scientific breakthrough confirms how early man left Africa 84,000 years ago

Early humans navigated along river channels while on their way to Eurasia, it’s been claimed

The Conversation

How do coral reefs thrive in parts of the ocean that are low in nutrients? By eating their algal companions

Coral reefs thrive in parts of the world’s oceans that are low in nutrients. This mystery has puzzled scientists for centuries and has become known as the “Darwin paradox of coral reefs”.

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Hong Kong protesters allegedly attacked by Chinese activists in Southampton

Police investigate after footage apparently shows three men assaulting a man and a woman

The Week

Thousands of people in UK out of work due to long Covid

Nisreen Alwan, professor of public health at the University of Southampton and Daniel Ayoubkhani, principal statistician at the Office for National Statistics and the University of Leicester explain how the latest statistics on the Covid pandemic and jobs suggest long Covid could be causing high levels of economic inactivity.

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