New theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang

New research from a team at Trinity College Dublin has unearthed a cheap and environmentally friendly new option for removing pollutants from our water. The key? Oyster shells that would ordinarily end up in landfill sites after consumption.

Researchers find evidence of successful hunt and exploitation of range of animals in Germany.

Research team finds evidence of Neanderthal hunting success at Lehringen. A marl pit near Lehringen in Lower Saxony in 1948: a school principal and helpers uncover the skeleton of a forest elephant in 125,000-year-old deposits from the last interglacial period.

Evidence-based parenting programmes delivered through community organisations can support family wellbeing and should be considered as part of wider strategies to reduce health inequalities, a landmark UCL study has found.

The consequences of a sedentary lifestyle are difficult to investigate in human studies. For this reason, an international research team involving the University of Hamburg has now investigated them in king penguins. The result: an abundant food supply in protected living conditions promotes rapid growth, but ultimately leads to accelerated ageing.

A team of scientists from Manchester and London have, for the first time, decoded the full range of mutations that drive tumour growth, which could pave the way for a new era in precision medicine, offering more effective treatments for thousands of people with cancer.

A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung.

The earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs, dating to about 15,800 years ago - more than 5,000 years earlier than previously thought - has been identified by a team of researchers including archaeologists from UCL.

Chemists at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Utrecht University have developed a new method to produce a promising chemical building block from biomass. This compound can serve as a precursor for useful products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals, and flavour and fragrance ingredients.

Long considered unrealistic, electron microscopy-based connectomics has established itself as a revolution in neuroscience.