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There were top marks for Peterhead Community Hospital. Peterhead Hospital.

Concerns over future of Peterhead hospital care as 15 patients moved to Fraserbu...

People wait at a road block as smoke rises from a wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on May 6, 2016 (Picture: Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images)

Wildfires are pushing peatlands towards terrifying climate change tipping point

A stock picture of a doctor

Parkinsons - thousands could develop disease due to common chemical

Robin Downie planned a career in music before encountering philosophy

Scotsman Obituaries: Robin Downie, Professor of Moral Philosophy

Miriam Margolyes has shared an update on her health following surgery

Harry Potter star rushed to hospital with infection

Doddie Weir during the Autumn International match at The Principality Stadium, Cardiff. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday November 3, 2018. See PA story RUGBYU Wales. Photo credit should read: David Davies/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only. No commercial use. No use in books or print sales without prior permission.

Future MND cure 'possible' amid ambitious strategy by Doddie Weir's charity

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s work covered the spectrum from classical to techno

Obituaries: Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and electronic music pioneer

The Earth is so large that it distorts spacetime (Picture: Nasa/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

How 19th-century science could help measure Earth's effect on spacetime

Sustainable Scotland explored, plus $75,000 academic prize

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MasterChef’s John Torode is set to be honoured at Buckingham Palace on Thursday - Credit: Getty Images

Honours given out at Buckingham Palace today - including John Torode

Sustainable capitalism: 300 years of history may solve modern issues

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Help fund world-class cancer research and allow people to live better, longer lives

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An offshore oil platform at sunset. Picture: Getty Images

Increasing windfall tax won’t suddenly fix prices, academic warns

It took an outcry from health charities and Labour for the delayed appointment of a women’s health champion for Scotland to finally be made (Picture: Andrew Milligan/pool/Getty Images)

SNP's delay in appointing women’s health champion is a worrying sign

Gable ends of former homes on Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. Figures released in the newly digitised 1921 Census show that Gaelic-only speakers in Scotland fell by almost a half in the decade leading up the count, with the loss of life in World War One partly attributed to the unprecedented decrease. PIC: Rob Farrow/geograph.org

The decade when Scotland lost half its Gaelic speaking people

‘Die Hard’ actor Clarence Gilyard Jr died

‘Die Hard’ actor Clarence Gilyard Jr died

Adults with a ‘very laid-back attitude’ to money could cost them £1,631.16 per y...

Brexit has done real damage to the UK economy (Picture: Frank Augstein/WPA pool/Getty Images)

UK's economic crisis reveals folly of Brexit. Scexit would be even worse

Elsie Inglis will be the first woman commemorated with a statue on the Royal Mile if the planning memorial goes ahead.

Elsie Inglis statue campaign revived after vow to keep royal sculptor in place

The clocks will go back in the UK at the end of the month.

How putting clocks back could cost £400 extra on energy bills

Nelson Norman meets a young penguin in Antarctica

Obituary: Prof Nelson Norman, consultant surgeon and remote healthcare pioneer

Insect brains have the potential to help engineers meet challenges of energy consumption and navigation, writes Professor Barbara Webb. PIC: Contributed.

How everyday problems could be solved by an insect's brain

Our Homo sapiens ancestors may have met as many as eight different types of human, such as Neanderthals (Picture: Sebastian Willnow/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins

A young boy lays flowers outside Buckingham Palace

In losing our Queen, we must discover renewed commitment to the values she cheri...

The Not Proven verdict is set to be scrapped in Scotland in the coming year.

Abolishing not proven in Scotland means survivors will benefit

PODCAST: Professor Thusha Rajendran look at the potential for robots to change Scotland

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Would an independent Scotland keep the Pound?

How would a common currency work post-Scottish independence?

Clear guidance can help avoid sanctions errors - Stacy Keen

Farming: Seasonal workers scheme needed in horticulture sector

Huge changes planned for supermarket self-service tills to prevent thefts

Heriot-Watt says Professor Medero is renowned globally for developing the K-Briq, which is made from 90 per cent construction and demolition waste. Picture: contributed.

Heriot-Watt speeds up efforts to support entrepreneurs of future with key hire

Vraska the steller's sea eagle cooling down in her bath with keeper Johanna McQuade at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, near Stirling, on the hottest day of the year. (Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

What is causing the UK heatwave?

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon released a new paper on democracy last week.

Academic labels independence democracy paper 'utterly fanciful' and 'dismal'

One of the newly-discovered crannogs discovered on Uist, with the artificial island pictured in the bottom left of the loch. The sites were built from rocks and used for settlement or rituals more than 5,000 years ago. PIC: Islands of Stone.

Secrets of deep revealed as ancient man-made islands in Hebrides discovered

Anti-abortion protesters outside the Sandyford Clinic on Wednesday (Photo: Provided by Back Off Scotland).

Calls for misogyny to be addressed in anti-abortion protests

Women council workers fighting for fair equal pay compensation. Picture: John Devlin

Trade unions need to think hard about impact of industrial action – Sandy Begbie

Professor Sarah Skerratt becomes chief executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in September. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Royal Society of Edinburgh names new chief executive

The former civil servant who negotiated the 2014 Scottish independence vote said the Scottish government would be unlikely to win a legal challenge against the UK Government in their bid for a second referendum.

Scottish Government ‘unlikely’ to win legal challenge over second referendum

Ncuti Gatwa, left, and Sam Heughan, right, are to be honoured at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Heughan and Gatwa to be honoured at Conservatoire

Many Scottish families have fallen into school meals debt
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Struggling Scottish families owe more than £1m in school meals debt

Explore what green jobs mean, search for courses and jobs, and take a greener approach to your next career move

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SSA argue that it would be unethical not to embrace the potential of technologies such as gene editing to help improve sustainable, high-welfare production in farmed animals.

New science group back gene editing for farm animals

A new generation of smart robots could have human-like sensitivity
Pic: Glasgow University

E-skin developed for robotic hands by team of Glasgow experts

The nature of sex and gender is increasingly being debated (Picture: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Abolishing legal status of sex would rob women of sex-based rights

Frank McPherson, pictured in 1991, had a particular interest in eating disorders

Scotsman Obituaries: Prof Frank McPherson, Scottish clinical psychologist

Picture: UK Atomic Energy Authority

Expert urges Scottish Government to back world’s first fusion power plant bid

A revolutionary new prostate treatment is being rolled out across the UK

A satellite image of space debris.

Space: Legal protection needed to protect the heavens from rising debris levels

Year 11 students, wearing face coverings, take part in a GCSE maths class at Park Lane Academy in Halifax, northwest England on March 8, 2021 as schools reopen following the easing of lockdown restrictions. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Only 17% of people can pass ‘world’s shortest’ three-question IQ test

Relatives of a civilian man exhumed from his garden in Gostomel village, Kyiv region, on Tuesday comfort each other (Picture: Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Ukraine war may claim many more lives before there's a chance of peace

Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka will receive the Edinburgh Medal in recognition of her work in East Africa.

East African conservationist to receive prestigious Edinburgh Medal

Professor Lynn Kilbride, Vice Principal for Academic Development and Student Experience

Partnership between staff and students in lockdown helped achieve success - Prof...

Professor Kenneth Muir said "more is needed" from the education system in Scotland ahead of the scrapping of the SQA in 2024.

‘SQA needs to deliver and change’, says independent adviser

Scotland’s record Covid infection levels and the increasing numbers of people in hospital with the virus are being “scrutinised intensely”, the country’s chief medical officer has said.

Rising Covid cases in Scotland are being ‘intensely monitored’

Professor Sir Charles Duncan Rice was ‘the quiet revolutionary’ of Scottish higher education

Obituary: Professor Sir Charles Duncan Rice, Aberdeen University principal

Mark Woolhouse FRSE FMedSci OBE is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the Usher Institute in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh PIC: Ian Georgeson

Book review: The Year the World Went Mad, by Mark Woolhouse

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The United Nations says both the Scottish and UK governments need to improve children's human rights. Image: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images.

UN says Scottish, UK governments need to improve children's human rights

The damage done by a wild fire at Tentsmuir (Pic: Forestry and Land Scotland)

Ranger assaulted for asking someone to put out campfire

Circular Economy Minister Lorna Slater

Lorna Slater's private Rum ferry cost taxpayers £1,200