Reprogramming of DNA observed in human germ cells for first time
04 June 2015A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome – the suite of...
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A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome – the suite of...
With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati, where humans...
Surprising finding shows that thornbills simulate a ‘chorus of alarm’ to distract predators by convincing them something scarier is on its way.
A team of scientists, part of the international effort to curb further spread of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has released its first dataset...
Pollution causes 30,000 people a year in the UK to die early yet most of us are unaware of the degree to which we are...
Big data has captured the world’s attention, with talk of a new Industrial Revolution based on information, and of data being one of the 21st...
The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, A is for Albatross – in sketches retrieved from...
The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational Psychology....
Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similarities with the Kuiper Belt that lies beyond Neptune,...
A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University of...