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Future of UK's largest telescope to be 'explored'1 day agoJODRELL BANK/ MANCHESTER UNIVERSITYFuture funding for the site is currently uncertainThe government has said it is "exploring" long-term options for Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the UK's largest telescope, after its future was put at risk. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the House of Commons on Thursday that the facility had a "secure future" and he had recently met staff at the University of Manchester, which runs the project, to explore potential solutions. But in September, Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged he would find a way to save the telescope. The Lovell telescope, which has stood at the site near Knutsford since 1957, is the third largest of its kind in the world. With a diameter of 250ft (76.2m), the instrument is part of a network of telescopes called e-Merlin across the UK, which have been pivotal in the country's study of distant galaxies and training future astronomers.'Science-based decision'Addressing the Commons, Reynolds said: "The Prime Minister and I have been clear that Jodrell Bank has a secure future.

With 302 neurons, 200 of them in their heads, hermaphrodite female roundworms reveal surprising sex-specific differences in the nervous system and how these differences influence behavior, reproduction, and aging. Researchers at Northeastern University compared brain activity in male and hermaphroditic Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic worm widely used in biological research to understand how sex wires males and female nervous systems differently.

Artist’s concept of the new dinosaur species Invictibellatrix amberina, along with the fossil from which it was identified. The fossil had been sitting in a drawer for 100 years, until researchers pulled it out and became curious. Image via Sergey Krasovskiy and Pedro Salas/ Natural History Museum London. You deserve a daily dose of good news. For the latest in science and the night sky, subscribe to EarthSky’s free daily newsletter.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new view of NGC 1827, an intermediate spiral galaxy seen edge-on in the constellation Columba. This Hubble image shows the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Michael Jones, California Institute of Technology / Gladys Kober, NASA / Catholic University of America.