Going up: birds and mammals evolve faster if their home is rising
02 September 2021The rise and fall of Earth’s land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, a new study has...
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The rise and fall of Earth’s land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, a new study has...
Researchers have made a tiny camera, held together with ‘molecular glue’ that allows them to observe chemical reactions in real time.
A new mechanism that stops the progression of Huntington’s disease in cells has been identified by scientists at the University of Cambridge and UCL, as...
Largest study to date analysing more than 40,000 COVID-19 cases finds a two-fold increased risk of hospitalisation from delta versus alpha variant infections.
Humanity is facing two existential threats. The first: uncontrolled CO2 emissions irreversibly changing the climate. The second: a hostile artificial intelligence (AI) becoming the dominant...
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate the...
A new paper by leading UK scientists sets out key solutions and policy actions that should be implemented now, as well as priority research areas...
University announces launch of Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) – a team of experts in aerospace, economics, policy, and climate science, who are building an interactive...
Carnivorous animals lack key genes needed to detect and respond to infection by pathogens, a study has found.
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has become only the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize.