Animal world
Chinese pandas return to England after 20 years
On the evening of December 4, two big pandas were brought from China to Scotland. These are the first pandas to come to England to live after nearly 20 years.
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Animal world
Strange photos of winter starlings
When winter comes, the sky at Gretna Green on the Scottish border is densely packed with wintering birds and these birds have created unexpectedly funny shapes.
Animal world
'Bat technology' helps detect tumors
Scottish scientists hope to create radar devices that function like bats. This device will be very effective in locating and identifying tumors hidden deep inside a huma…
Animal world
Sheep go down because of the greenhouse effect
A 20-year study in Scottish sheep shows that climate change is altering their body size and population size. Cold winters create big sheep, but in the winter it is not t…
Environment
Cloud like hand reaching to the ground
Louise Taylor uses a phone to capture a cloud that looks like a giant hand near the Scottish village of Tore, Sun on June 5 reported.
Environment
Snow cubes curled between Scottish fields
A citizen photographed a special shaped snow block in Glassford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, BBC on January 17 reported.
Environment
Columns taller than 14m
Photo of the giant wave over 14 meters as if frozen when crashing into the Scottish coast is causing fever in England.
Environment
'Rainbow ghost' appears in the sky of Scotland
The silky white silver rainbow winked across the Scottish sky, making many people think of it
Environment
Tens of thousands of mysterious 'cakes' float on the Scottish river
Ice patches in the form of a strange thin disk suddenly discovered floating on a river in Scotland.
Environment
Cold weather can increase blood pressure
Scottish researchers have discovered an association between cold weather, low sunshine and heavy rain with the risk of hypertension. They also found that patients with w…
Environment
Scotland sinks in the bubble storm
Large winds rippled across the Scottish coastline, creating a white, stormy sponge that erased a fishing village near Aberdeen on September 25.
Environment
St Kilda Islands (England)
This tiny island is lurking on the Atlantic Ocean, 160km from the Scottish coast, formed by the ruins of a volcano whose disintegration and freezing created vertical wal…
Videos
Video: Sheep survive 11 days in the snow
Stuart Mactier, a 19-year-old student who studied agriculture, dug a 3.6 m thick layer of snow and found the 4-year-old pregnant sheep still surviving. Earlier, a large…
Science Events
Research on consumption and poverty receives the Nobel Prize in 2015
Angus Deaton - Scottish scientist Angus Deaton has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the relationship between consumption, poverty and w…
Science Events
The award is named Peter Higgs
The Scottish government announced that it had set up a physics prize named Professor Peter Higgs, who first proposed the theory of the existence of a grain named after h…