Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe
16 January 2015Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of...
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Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of...
One in five cases of Lassa fever – a disease that kills around 5,000 people a year in West Africa – could be due to...
A brisk 20 minute walk each day could be enough to reduce an individual’s risk of early death, according to new research published today. The...
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published...
Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using...
New research into the way in which we learn new skills finds that a single skill can be learned faster if its follow-through motion is...
A new responsive material ‘glued’ together with short strands of DNA, and capable of translating thermal and chemical signals into visible physical changes, could underpin...
New research shows that the natural reactions taking place in some of the underground reservoirs used to store carbon dioxide may prevent carbon emissions from...
Tiny sketchbooks that bring to life one of the most famous voyages in history have been digitised and made available online for the first time.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge working with the Weizmann Institute have created primordial germ cells – cells that will go on to become egg...