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Thousands of students across the UK will find out what grades they achieved in their GCSE exams today, August 21, as results day arrives. Pupils will find out their grades when they head back to their ...

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A research team successfully developed a solar-powered artificial plant device and rapidly purified soil contaminated with radioactive cesium. This device, which mimics plant transpiration, can ...

As temperatures rise in July and August, transpiration from plants might add to the humidity. One plant that gets more blame than others is corn, said Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy and ...

Gregory Moore is affiliated with Make Victoria Greener, which campaigns to preserve trees in Victoria. Trees and greenspace can drive down urban temperatures – but they must be able to draw water from ...

Londoners are a clever lot. Five of our unis are officially among the best in the world, we have England’s best private school and boast the only state school to be part of the World Leading Schools ...

Data provided by the Independent Schools Council (ISC). Not all independent schools in the UK either submit their data to the ISC or are represented by the ISC. Fee information is per year and has ...

The gap in GCSE results between private and state schools has widened at the highest grades. Almost half of entries from private schools scored at least a grade 7 this year, compared to around a fifth ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers have received their GCSE results with a slight drop in the proportion of top grades awarded from last year. The approach to grading in England returned to ...