Killer flies. Credit: S.T. Fabian Killer flies can reach accelerations of over 3g when aerial diving to catch their prey — but at such high…
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Credit: NASA Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth’s interior than previously…
Kennewick Man skull at the Natural History Museum, Karlsruhe. Credit: Ghedoghedo (CC BY-SA 4.0) A ball of 4,000-year-old hair frozen in time tangled around a…
The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability – it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds…
Researchers have identified two subgroups of adolescents who self-harm and have shown that it is possible to predict those individuals at greatest risk almost a…
Perfect Bush-crow and Swallow habitat in Ethiopia. Credit: Andrew Bladon The White-tailed Swallow, Hirundo megaensis, and Ethiopian Bush-crow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, are living in ‘climatic lifeboats’…
Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge…
Astronomers have spotted a giant ‘blinking’ star towards the center of the Milky Way, more than 25,000 light years away. An international team of astronomers…
Researchers studying how we make moral judgments found that people more concerned about catching COVID-19 were more disapproving of the wrong-doings of others, whatever they…
University of Cambridge experiment evaluated the effect of human decisions on climate reconstructions. The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate…
A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge and University of Utrecht examined trends in daily crime counts before and after COVID-19 restrictions…
Researchers have used a technique similar to MRI to follow the movement of individual atoms in real time as they cluster together to form two-dimensional…
Bamboo cricket bat prototype and section of bamboo. Credit: Ana Gatóo Bamboo cricket bats are stronger, offer a better ‘sweet spot’ and deliver more energy…
Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has…
Bank credit officers are more likely to approve loan applications earlier and later in the day, while ‘decision fatigue’ around midday is associated with defaulting…
The remains of numerous individuals unearthed on the site of the former Hospital of St. John the Evangelist. Credit: Cambridge Archaeological Unit The first study…
Left: an image of a tree based on LiDAR data. Right: the same image converted to a hologram. Credit: Jana Skirnewskaja Researchers have developed the…
An at-risk mussel species. Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can help…
A unique residential study has concluded that, contrary to perceived wisdom, people with eating disorders do not lose self-control — leading to binge-eating — in…
Fluorescence microscopy image of protein condensates forming inside living cells. Credit: Weitz lab, Harvard University Artificial Intelligence can ‘predict’ the biological language of cancer and…