Scientists at a recently opened cancer institute at Cambridge University have begun work that is pinpointing changes in cells many years before they develop into…
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Darwin’s plant specimens stored for 200 years to go on public display
Plant specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed in an archive at Cambridge University. The rare specimens, which…
View More Darwin’s plant specimens stored for 200 years to go on public displayAstronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep space
Astronomers have observed a distant planet that could be entirely covered in a deep water ocean, in findings that advance the search for habitable conditions…
View More Astronomers detect ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ in deep spaceModel embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy
Scientists have created a model human embryo with a heartbeat and traces of blood in an advance that offers an extraordinary window into the first…
View More Model embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society
From mocking kings and priests to encouraging audiences to get drunk, newly discovered texts at the National Library of Scotland have shed light on the…
View More ‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval societyTown vs gown and car vs bike: row erupts over Cambridge congestion plan
In 1381, a mob sacked university buildings and burned books in the town square, shouting: “Away with the learning of clerks!” More recently, battle lines…
View More Town vs gown and car vs bike: row erupts over Cambridge congestion planCannabis researchers say it’s high time to drop ‘lazy stoner’ stereotype
Cannabis users are often depicted as lazy “stoners” whose life ambitions span little further than lying on the sofa eating crisps. But research from the…
View More Cannabis researchers say it’s high time to drop ‘lazy stoner’ stereotypeGiant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil reveals
Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have revealed, following the discovery of a 326m-year-old fossil.…
View More Giant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil revealsSingle Pfizer jab can reduce asymptomatic Covid infections by 75%
A single dose of the Pfizer vaccine can reduce asymptomatic infections by 75%, according to research that suggests the jab could substantially curtail transmission of…
View More Single Pfizer jab can reduce asymptomatic Covid infections by 75%People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Our brains hold clues for the ideologies we choose to live by, according to research, which has suggested that people who espouse extremist attitudes tend…
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