Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 20243D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them
New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet
06 May 2024Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks - including ones we don’t even know about
Artificial intelligence beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems
17 Apr 2024A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide advice.
Pork labelling schemes ‘not helpful’ in making informed buying choices, say researchers
11 Apr 2024Farmers don’t have to choose between lowering environmental impact and improving welfare for their pigs, a new study has found: it is possible to do both. But this is not reflected in the current food labelling schemes relied on by consumers.
Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’
03 Apr 2024A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to the ancient world.
TB vaccine may enable elimination of the disease in cattle by reducing its spread
28 Mar 2024Vaccination not only reduces the severity of TB in infected cattle, but reduces its spread in dairy herds by 89%, research finds.
‘Exhausted’ immune cells in healthy women could be target for breast cancer prevention
28 Mar 2024Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in healthy carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.
Reclaim ‘wellness’ from the rich and famous, and restore its political radicalism, new book argues
28 Mar 2024A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither narcissistic nor self-indulgent, and nor did its practice involve buying expensive, on-trend luxury products. Instead, wellness emphasised social well-being just as much as it focused on the needs of the individual. Wellness practitioners thought of self-care as a way of empowering people to prioritise their health so that they could also enhance the well-being of those around them.
Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity
06 Mar 2024New research finds around a quarter of Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to a genetic mutation.
