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45 million years ago, Western Europe, influenced by high CO2 concentrations, had a warm and wet climate with monsoon-like conditions.

SUM-101, a new malaria vaccine candidate has shown to be safe and to trigger strong immune responses in adults living in a malaria-endemic region of Tanzania.

Western engineers have amalgamated the function and force of photovoltaics (PV) technology with a heat pump and a thermal battery to create a fully electrified - and energy efficient - new house.

The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system, already known to be in deep trouble, now faces 'a worsening crisis' which, say experts, puts the UK on the brink of a national emergency.

Authored by Hannah Curran-Troop as part of her one-year UKRI HEIF-funded fellowship with Creative Manchester, this work marks a major partnership between Manchester City Council's Culture Team and Creative Manchester.

A new study led by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) at the University of Oxford has found that UK households see their income slashed by 17% in the first year after job loss - a far sharper hit than in Nordic or continental countries.

By analyzing brain waves, researchers at Radboud University - including neuroscientist Thirza Dado - have managed to reconstruct, with surprising accuracy, images that test subjects were viewing.

His retirement in fall 2025 marks the end of a formative chapter in Swiss organ research. From oil to the organ When Marco Brandazza talks about his career, he covers a wide range of topics, from the rock strata of the Italian Riviera to the pipes and windchests of central Switzerland.

Carnegie Mellon University chemistry Ph.D. candidate Abhrojyoti Mazumder struck gold with nanocluster research.

Fewer and fewer people in Switzerland are consuming journalistic news media. They know less about current events, have less trust in politics and feel less connected to democratic society, according to the Yearbook Quality of the Media 2025 from the Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög) at the University of Zurich.

Mithilfe der Crispr/Cas-Technologie können Forschende das Erbgut präzise editieren, um Erbkrankheiten zu therapieren.

As voice artificial intelligence (AI) speeds toward use in clinical settings, a researcher from Simon Fraser University is highlighting the urgent need for ethical, legal, and social oversight-especially in therapeutic care.

Without the evolutionary development of a complex digestive system, there would be no large mammals, including humans.

A team from the University of Valencia (UV) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has demonstrated the effectiveness of an electrochemical process based on the use of boron-doped diamond to remove pharmaceutical residues from river and lake waters.

A multiple sclerosis (MS) patient in the UK was the first to receive CAR T cell therapy, invented by UCL researchers, in a clinical trial testing whether this personalised treatment can slow or even halt the progression of the disease.

A new form of 3D-printed twisting metamaterial which can mitigate the effects of impact could lead to improved crash protection for vehicles in the years ahead. Researchers from universities in Scotland and Italy are behind the development of the material, which has a unique lattice shape that allows it to twist into itself to effectively protect against a range of impact types and severities.

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM Food - in addition to sunlight - regulates our internal biological clock and its ability to adapt to the seasons, according to new research in mice. According to researchers, it could have health benefits to eat more seasonal and locally produced food. Our blood pressure rises in the morning, our brain releases sleep hormones before bedtime, and our body temperature drops during sleep.

*** Portuguese version below *** In a small computer lab in Maputo, rows of students from Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) stare at colourful satellite maps showing how drought slowly spreads across their country.

A study conducted across 43 European countries by an international scientific team coordinated by Université Grenoble Alpes , in collaboration with the CNRS , Inserm, and the French National Research