New datasets will train AI models to think like scientists
02 December 2024What can exploding stars teach us about how blood flows through an artery? Or swimming bacteria about how the ocean’s layers mix? A collaboration of...
Landmark 'pill-on-a-thread' cancer screening trial welcomes first participants
28 November 2024A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed its first...
Scientists warn of ‘invisible threat’ of microplastics as global treaty nears completion
26 November 2024As the UN meets this week to finalise the Global Plastics Treaty, researchers warn that the agreement could fail to address one of the biggest...
Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds
25 November 2024Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics
22 November 2024Professor Hannah Fry, mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning science presenter and host of popular podcasts and television shows, will join the University of Cambridge as the...
Cartographers of the human body: the Human Cell Atlas
20 November 2024The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map every cell in the human body. Its co-lead, Professor Sarah Teichmann, explains how the initiative...
Northerners, Scots and Irish excel at detecting fake accents to guard against outsiders, study suggests
20 November 2024People from Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and the north-east of England are better at detecting someone imitating their accent than people from London and Essex, new...
A peek inside the box that could help solve a quantum mystery
19 November 2024An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense early universe has puzzled physicists for decades. Following its discovery in 2003, scientists began observing...
‘Teen-friendly’ mindfulness therapy aims to help combat depression
18 November 2024Researchers have developed a mindfulness therapy tailored specifically to appeal to teenagers to help them cope with increasing levels of depression and mental health problems.
Study uncovers earliest evidence of humans using fire to shape the landscape of Tasmania
15 November 2024Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years...