Is your ultra-HD TV worth it? Scientists measure the resolution limit of the human eye
27 October 2025Is your ultra-high-definition television really worth it? Do you need a 4K or an 8K screen to get the best viewing experience at home?
Dementia linked to problems with brain’s waste clearance system
23 October 2025Problems with the brain’s waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such...
UK organisations release statistics for use of animals in research in 2024
23 October 2025The 10 organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have...
Widely-used technique for assessing IVF embryos may be flawed, study suggests
23 October 2025A test deployed in many fertility clinics to assess the viability of embryos for use in IVF is likely to overestimate the number of embryos...
Public invited to share their most vivid memories to aid research
22 October 2025Researchers have launched a public survey to help them unlock the secrets of vivid memory, and find ways to help us better recall past experiences
‘Messy’ galaxies in the early universe struggled to settle
22 October 2025Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just a few hundred million years...
New telescope opens a window to the southern sky
21 October 2025A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve.
Victorian Manchester 'slums' housed wealthy doctors and engineers
21 October 2025New research shows that many middle-class Mancunians lived in the same buildings and streets as working-class residents including weavers and spinners, undermining key assumptions about...
Indian literary genius survived imperialism in forgotten villages
16 October 2025‘Pundits’ kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research project will show. The largely forgotten literary...
Locking carbon in trees and soils could ‘stabilise climate for centuries’ if combined with underground storage
15 October 2025Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with lower-cost and currently more...