Winter sea ice loss may be underestimated, according to ancient clues from a warmer Arctic
Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around one million square kilometres more than previously thought, after researchers used clues from a...
Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards
Children and young people broadly support the use of health data for research that could improve lives, but they want strong safeguards, transparency, and greater...
Fatal Neanderthal wound may be earliest evidence of a wooden spear attack on a human ancestor
A circular hole in a 75,000-year-old scapula suggests lethal conflict involving sharpened wooden spears among Neanderthals in the Middle East. The remains also show evidence...
Females with autoimmune diseases ‘less likely to be believed’ than males and face longer diagnostic delays
Females with autoimmune diseases are significantly more likely than males to have their autoimmune disease misdiagnosed as a psychiatric or psychosomatic condition, according to a...
Cambridge researchers awarded ARIA funding
Cambridge researchers have been awarded funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to use proteins as manufacturing tools to assemble advanced materials, including...
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record
Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth’s earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils – even though they were essentially fragile ‘bags...
Genetic analysis of the world's oldest land animal reveals secret of living 194 years
Researchers studying a giant tortoise named Jonathan say it’s not just good genes, but lack of genetic wear and tear that have kept him going...
What can you learn from a butterfly?
Pollen-eating Heliconius butterflies have remarkable powers of learning and memory. Professor Steve Montgomery is investigating what this can tell us about the evolution of brains...
Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s “Little England”
The discovery of 20 coins alongside evidence of craftwork provides the first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum in Rome, and suggests it was a...
AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal
Food in Senegal is mostly grown on small-scale, rain-dependent farms, leaving much of the population vulnerable to climate shocks, according to the World Food Programme...