Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce colour and signal a treat for birds
06 August 2020Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this...
Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue
06 August 2020The overwhelming ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence – from stock images and cinematic robots to the dialects of virtual assistants – removes people of colour from...
Study suggests embryos could be susceptible to coronavirus as early as second week of pregnancy
05 August 2020Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as...
Green energy and better crops: tinted solar panels could boost farm incomes
04 August 2020Researchers have demonstrated the use of tinted, semi-transparent solar panels to generate electricity and produce nutritionally-superior crops simultaneously, bringing the prospect of higher incomes for...
Nine Cambridge researchers among this year’s Royal Society medal and award winners
04 August 2020A leading pioneer in the field of protein engineering, Sir Alan Fersht FMedSci FRS, has been named as the 2020 winner of the world’s oldest...
Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer
03 August 2020Four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time,...
Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life
03 August 2020Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier...
Genetic tool can identify Asian women at higher risk of breast cancer
31 July 2020A genetic study in Asian women, led by Malaysian scientists in collaboration with Singapore and the University of Cambridge, has revealed that a genetic tool developed to...
‘Pill on a string’ test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis
30 July 2020A ‘pill on a string’ test can identify ten times more people with Barrett’s oesophagus than the usual GP route, after results from a...
Launch of 'Beyond the pandemic': where should we go from here?
30 July 2020The COVID-19 crisis is forcing us all to change direction, to rethink what we do and how we do it. In a new series, launched...