Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks...
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus. Who’d have thought that a mussel, that doesn’t even have a...
Writing for The Conversation, Dr Maarja Luhiste and Zachary Greene outline why the war in Ukraine has been a key issue in the Estonian elections. Russia’s...
A pioneering new method to assess the quality of organs for donation has the potential to revolutionise the transplant system, saving lives and tens of millions...
Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a Cambridge study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale...
A unique artefact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during sex rather than as a good luck symbol,...
With the atlas, researchers found features of motor neurons that make them vulnerable to ALS and cells that may be central regulators of chronic pain When...
Fifteen million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with just four countries accounting for more than half of those...
Revelation of protein’s structural nuances point toward novel pharmaceutical approaches to chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and other illnesses The devil so often is in the details....
Unless you are an important statesman, an influential thinker, a powerful religious figure, or a popular celebrity, chances are that after you die, you will probably...