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Expectant mothers were given a small amount of food around 20 minutes before the scans were made with researchers finding the unborn babies reacted either happily or not

Liz Truss's Government lifted the fracking ban on Thursday morning - breaking a promise of the 2019 Tory manifesto

Here's how North East universities performed in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide

Letters: David Hunter sheds light on the fate of the Queen’s campus facility. Plus a letter from David Duell

Durham has become the focus of anger from both sides of the political spectrum. Students and academics try to explain why its campus skirmishes keep spilling out into the tabloids

Zorian Tytych, from Kyiv, got four As in his A-levels while helping Ukrainian refugees and soldiers in the UK.

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this was the end of a decades-long and hugely difficult journey – and arguably the most important result in the history of…

Dr Fiona Hill attended Bishop Barrington Academy in the late 70s and early 80s, before going on to follow her dreams in the United States of America

A new research institute has been launched via an industry-academia partnership