University Of Reading

Expert says jury is still out on extent to which climate change is affecting the jet stream

Chemical agent ‘more dangerous and sophisticated’ than sarin or VX

Hazard of summer thunderstorms also registers in extensive US climate-change study

Climate change didn’t cause the storm, but may have helped it travel further north

Joyce, Binchy and O’Brien show ‘a link between lapsed Catholics and philo-semitism’

The European Union needs to stop being paralysed and act to remedy its flaws

Researchers find effect of LED light on brain cuts concentration of degenerative plaque

Research suggests pressing need for sharper insight into changing wind and rain patterns

Planning could have given those living along the Shannon 10 days’ warning

Cosmetics companies say one thing, public health advocates another

Lower risk of ill-health for people with high dairy intake, conference hears

Subjects include writer's theatrical career, including 1952 production of ‘Waiting for Godot’

Collection of letters that sold for €360,000 in 2006 could now sell for as little as €100,000

‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’

IPCC says reduction in warming in recent years down to variation in climate system