Research
Relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond...
Infrared sensors and a marshmallow offer researchers a new way to monitor and assess social interaction.
How fast could a new flu epidemic spread? The results of the UK’s largest citizen science project of its kind ever attempted, carried out by...
A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next-generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricity.
The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of studies using organoids – so-called ‘mini organs’. While they can help scientists understand human biology...
Memories of the largest lava flood in the history of Iceland, recorded in an apocalyptic medieval poem, were used to drive the island’s conversion to...
A growing network of lakes on the Greenland ice sheet has been found to drain in a chain reaction that speeds up the flow of...
Researchers have developed a super-thin, non-toxic, lightweight, edible ultra-white coating that could be used to make brighter paints and coatings, for use in the cosmetic,...
The story surrounding the oldest written document at one of the world’s great research libraries has been unravelled in a new film.
Over a half of stroke patients require a degree of help with taking medicine and a sizeable minority say they do not receive as much...
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