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A team of international scientists has set sail for the Antarctic to study the behaviour of the massive Thwaites Glacier, which is melting faster than ever before as a result of climate change and could cause dramatic rises in global sea level in the near future. Picture: Jim Yungel/NASA

Boaty McBoatface on mission to study Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'

Trials in Loch Ness run from Tuesday 18 to Saturday 29 May and will put the cutting-edge technologies to the test

Trials of robot submarines to begin at Loch Ness

British scientists bid to uncover Earth’s frozen secrets in Antarctica

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Deadly cladding was identified in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Picture: PA

Minister must outline details of cladding deal with housebuilders in Holyrood

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the party's net zero energy strategy during a visit to Scotland's oil and gas heartland in Aberdeen next month. Picture: Robert Perry/PA

Labour plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas branded ‘pie in the sky’

Dunoon Grammar School has been hailed as a model for other schools (Picture: Dunoon Grammar School/PA Wire)

Why one secondary school is being hailed as a model for others