COVID Lockdown Wellbeing: Children Who Spent More Time in Nature Fared Best
Children from less affluent backgrounds are likely to have found COVID-19 lockdowns more challenging to their mental health because they experienced a lower connection with…
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Mito Warriors: New Footage Shows T Cell Assassins Hunting Down and Destroying Cancer Cells
Scientists discover how T cell assassins reload their weapons to kill and kill again. Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells – an important component…
Biophysics Researchers Create Mathematical Model That Predicts Best Way To Build Muscle
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can predict the optimum exercise regime for building muscle. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used methods…
The Variant Hunters Film: The Story Behind the Race To Sequence the COVID-19 Virus
The variant hunters are helping us to understand how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading, allowing us to fight back against the COVID-19 pandemic….
“Vegetarian” Giant Tortoise Attacks and Eats Seabird As Horrified Researchers Film
Researchers have captured on film the moment when a Seychelles giant tortoise, Aldabrachelys gigantea, attacked and ate a tern chick. This is the first documentation…
Farmed Carnivores May Become Hidden “Disease Reservoirs” Posing Risk to Human Health
Carnivorous animals lack key genes needed to detect and respond to infection by pathogens, a study has found. Farming large numbers of carnivores, like mink,…
Time Crystals: “Back to Basics” Approach Helps Unravel New Phase of Matter
A new phase of matter, thought to be understandable only using quantum physics, can be studied with far simpler classical methods. Researchers from the University…
World First for Artificial Intelligence To Treat COVID-19 Patients Worldwide
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge along with 20 other hospitals from across the world and healthcare technology leader, NVIDIA, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict…
XENON1T Experiment May Have Detected Dark Energy
Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy’s…
Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Dementia Years Before Symptoms Appear
Artificial intelligence could spot the early signs of dementia from a simple brain scan long before major symptoms appear – and in some cases before…
Earth’s Inner Core Is Growing Lopsided – Here’s Why the Planet Isn’t Tipping
More than 5,000 kilometers beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic…
COVID Delta Variant Spread Driven by Combination of Immune Escape and Increased Infectivity
Findings suggest infection control measures against variants will need to continue in the post-vaccination era. The Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, which has become the dominant…
Nano “Camera” – Held Together With Molecular Glue – Allows Real-Time Monitoring of Chemical Reactions
Researchers have made a tiny camera, held together with ‘molecular glue’ that allows them to observe chemical reactions in real-time. The device, made by a…
Unlike Humans, Cuttlefish Retain Sharp Memory of Specific Events in Old Age
Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific events happened – right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found. The results,…
Early Humans Were Sheltered From Worst Effects of Massive Volcanic Supereruption
A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia about 74,000 years ago likely caused severe climate disruption in many areas of the globe, but early human populations…
New Feedback Loops: Climate Change Will Transform Cooling Effects of Volcanic Eruptions
Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere. The researchers, from the University of…
Experts Warn That Minor Volcanic Eruptions Could “Cascade” Into Global Catastrophe
Currently, much of the thinking around risks posed by volcanoes follows a simple equation: the bigger the likely eruption, the worse it will be for…
How “Overwhelming” Government Guidance Held Schools Back As COVID Hit
Study shows that UK Government released 201 policy updates for schools during first 90 days of lockdown. Headteachers and school leaders have described how an…