Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star
02 May 2016Three Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a dim and cool star, and may be the best place to search for life beyond the Solar...
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Three Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a dim and cool star, and may be the best place to search for life beyond the Solar...
New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could have been...
Researchers have built a nano-engine that could form the basis for future applications in nano-robotics, including robots small enough to enter living cells.
A dark shadow lay over his family name when, aged 24, Sir Kenelm Digby raised a fleet to sail against the enemy French in the...
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia’s legendary creative figures. Russia and the Arts, which draws attention to a...
Mainstream media reporting about Muslim communities is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain, according to a University of Cambridge/ESRC Roundtable...
The Academy of Medical Sciences has announced the election of its new Fellows, including six Cambridge University academics.
Astronomers have observed two black holes in nearby galaxies devouring their companion stars at an extremely high rate, and spitting out matter at a quarter...
The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages...
Kenneth Armstrong (Centre for European Legal Studies) and Michael Dougan (University of Liverpool) discuss the volume of UK law which derives from the EU.