Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, was…
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Sections of the fetus and placenta. Credit: Ionel Sandovici Cambridge scientists have identified a key signal that the fetus uses to control its supply of…
Date palm 2.5 years after grafting. Inset shows a magnified region at the base of the plant, with the arrowhead pointing to the graft junction.…
Researchers have developed a method to stabilize a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance. Credit: University of…
Fossilized section of the giant millipede Arthropleura, found in a sandstone boulder in the north of England. Credit: Neil Daves The largest-ever fossil of a…
Hand of Plague victim. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Jack Poland ‘Plague skeptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th–8th…
4 billion years ago, the Earth was composed of a series of magma oceans hundreds of kilometers deep. Earth hasn’t always been a blue and…
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram…
Visualization of the spread of droplets when coughing. The droplets are color-coded by size. Red = large, green = medium, blue = small, purple =…
Artistic representation of electrons funneling into high-quality areas of perovskite material. Credit: Alex T. at Ella Maru Studios Researchers from the University of Cambridge have…
Irritable bowel syndrome. Credit: Scientific Animations An international study of more than 50,000 people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has revealed that IBS symptoms may…
Credit: University of Cambridge A new carbon-based air filtration nanomaterial capable of capturing and destroying various viruses, including animal coronavirus, a close relative of SARS-CoV-2Severe…
A computer network closely modeled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images — and…
Hungry caterpillars are an underappreciated driver of carbon emissions. A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching…
For the first time, researchers have used human data to quantify the speed of different processes that lead to Alzheimer’sAlzheimer’s disease is a disease that…
Photograph of Legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull c.1885. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native…
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as particle physicists reported tantalizing evidence for new physics — potentially a new force of…
Mini-brain organoids showing cortex-like structures. Credit: Andras Lakatos/University of Cambridge Cambridge researchers have developed ‘mini brains’ that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable…
A trio of woolly mammoths trudges over snow covered hills. Behind them, mountains with snow covered peaks rise above dark green forests of fir trees.…