Astronomers spot a ‘blinking giant’ near the centre of the Galaxy
11 June 2021Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star towards the centre of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away.
The futurist who'd like the future to slow down - just a little
10 June 2021The problem with being a futurist, says Richard Watson, is that change is happening a lot faster and a lot crazier these days. We talk...
‘Vegan spider silk’ provides sustainable alternative to single-use plastics
10 June 2021Researchers have created a plant-based, sustainable, scalable material that could replace single-use plastics in many consumer products.
England on track to achieve elimination of HIV transmission by 2030 as model shows sharp decrease in HIV incidence
10 June 2021The annual number of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men in England is likely to have fallen dramatically, from 2,770 in...
People more afraid of catching COVID-19 are more judgemental, study finds
09 June 2021Researchers studying how we make moral judgements found that people more concerned about catching COVID-19 were more disapproving of the wrong-doings of others, whatever they were doing wrong.
Scientists can predict which women will have serious pregnancy complications
08 June 2021Women who will develop potentially life-threatening disorders during pregnancy can be identified early when hormone levels in the placenta are tested, a new study has...
Atom swapping could lead to ultra-bright, flexible next generation LEDs
07 June 2021An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make more efficient low-cost light-emitting materials that are flexible and...
Experiment evaluates the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions
07 June 2021The first double-blind experiment analysing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different results.
Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data
04 June 2021Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge...
One in twenty workers are in ‘useless’ jobs – far fewer than previously thought
03 June 2021The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as...