Forgotten recordings made by a pioneering Black academic allow contemporary linguists to hear for the first time how the ...

Comets didn’t seed life on Earth after all, a new study suggests, potentially overturning a century-old idea. The theory that ...

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 warm period 6,000 years ago to improve the ...

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 involvement in decisions about how ...

The funding is part of ARIA’s Universal Fabricators Programme, a three-year, £50 million programme that will support 11 different research teams. The programme’s central bet is that proteins can act ...

The findings suggest that some psychological differences between males and females (such the development of social skills) may be influenced by both prenatal biology as well as later experience. The ...

Scientists have discovered several 518-million-year-old fossils that reshape the origins of the group of animals that contains starfish, and found that they ate their food using tentacles, and not ...

With provisional data from the Met Office showing this summer to be the UK’s hottest on record, and a drought having been declared across much of England, Professor Beverley Glover, Head of Evolution ...

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, say ...

Scientists have produced the first full scale wiring map of a male adult animal’s brain and nerve cord, enabling unprecedented insights into how the brain works and controls behaviour. This full ...

A message to the Cambridge community one week after the tragic passing of Jason Arday. Today marks a week since the tragic passing of our former colleague Jason Arday. Last Friday we heard the ...

A UK-based consortium will conduct the world’s first airspace trial aimed at reducing condensation trails – known as contrails – that could greatly reduce aviation’s global warming impact. Backed by ...