The Longing of Belonging: African photography on show at MAA
13 June 2017A photography exhibition capturing the black South African Zionist community – the most popular religious denomination in the country – opens at the Museum of...
Human reproduction likely to be more efficient than previously thought
13 June 2017How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study...
Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan
13 June 2017How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’? Professor Chris Lowe, inaugural Director...
Similarities in human and pig embryos provide clues to early stages of development
07 June 2017Scientists have shown how the precursors of egg and sperm cells – the cells that are key to the preservation of a species – arise...
Opinion: Remainer or re-leaver? The philosophical conundrum posed by Brexit
07 June 2017A recent YouGov survey suggests there is increasing agreement that 'Brexit means Brexit'. However, Alfred Moore from the Conspiracy and Democracy Project suspects support is "broad...
Genes influence ability to read a person’s mind from their eyes
07 June 2017Our DNA influences our ability to read a person’s thoughts and emotions from looking at their eyes, suggests a new study published in the journal...
Opinion: Are universities ready for a new kind of science?
06 June 2017Is the knowledge and scholarship that universities produce relevant to the problems the world faces? In a new essay co-authored with an international group of...
Pilot programme encourages researchers to share the code behind their work
02 June 2017New project, partly designed by a University of Cambridge researcher, aims to improve transparency in science by sharing ‘how the sausage is made’.
New insights into how the Zika virus causes brain birth defect
01 June 2017Scientists have uncovered why Zika virus may specifically target neural stem cells in the developing brain, potentially leading to microcephaly – a potentially serious birth...
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time
01 June 2017Results confirm new population of black holes.