African collections at MAA come from over 700 named collectors, donors or vendors. One of the largest collections, made by ...

Cancer screening trial for novel 'pill-on-a-thread' welcomes first of 120,000 participants. The trial will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer in the UK. The UN met ...

Remotely operated camera traps, sound recorders and drones are increasingly being used in conservation science to monitor ...

A pivotal clinical trial of a 'pill-on-a-thread' test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for ...

The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project to map every cell in the human body. Its co-lead, Professor Sarah Teichmann, ...

Researchers have developed a mindfulness therapy tailored specifically to appeal to teenagers to help them cope with ...

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully-funded PhDs has been launched. It is seeking the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ...

Sitting in a field strung with 120 miles of radio telescope antennae, 24-year old PhD student Jocelyn Bell couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d seen something before. The year was 1967. For two years ...

Cultural, political, or even violent conflict are likely to encourage people to strengthen their accents as they try to ...

If these words are describing a real observation, then a major astronomical event was taking place - the question for us to figure out is what the text actually means. Our selection of the week's ...

A graveyard of 35 people laid to rest over 10,000 years ago was uncovered in Shanidar Cave by archaeologist Ralph Solecki in 1960. This cemetery was found at the end of four seasons of excavation, ...