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VIRUS Bird flu can infect both cows and humans. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a tool that can predict where and when the risk of infection is highest. Sudden drop in milk production, thickened milk, and cows under movment restrictions. Since 2024, American farmers have had bitter experiences with the feared bird flu (H5N1), which in several cases has been introduced to cattle - and then spread rapidly among cattle herds.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Irini Mavrou (UCL Ioe) details her research on why both native speakers and second language speakers can come across as rude when speaking to one another.

Dr Lucy van Dorp (UCL Genetics Institute), along with a colleague, explains in an article for The Conversation how illnesses contracted by toddlers at nursery can help strengthen their immune systems in the long term. There's no nice way to put it: small children are snotty. A research study  that tested children for multiple respiratory viruses every week for a year found that under-fives are carrying one or more viruses 50% of the time.

Based on EEG data and heart rate, the system adjusts the intensity of the exposure to the anxiety level of the participants.

Dice, cards and tokens usually belong on the kitchen table on game night. But what if they could also be used to help improve collaboration in the workplace?

In the same way Spiderman shoots his web to ensnarl his enemies, scientists have discovered a way in which our cells defend our bodies from the early stages of viral infection by synthesising a sticky 'web' to trap viral genomes.

The key health and social indicators needed for a new global system to monitor people's health before pregnancy have been identified for the first time by researchers at University College London and the University of Southampton. As more women are becoming pregnant with health conditions that can complicate pregnancy and childbirth, such as obesity, diabetes and mental illness, pre-pregnancy health has been thrown into the spotlight.

Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don't, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses during early school years, finds a new review of evidence by a group of parent-scientists involving UCL researchers. All five authors of the new Clinical Microbiology Reviews paper are parents of young children, who are also researchers or clinicians at UCL, the University of Cambridge, Cornell University and North Middlesex University Hospital.

Dutch greenhouse gas emissions rose again last year, our energy supply needs to become more resilient, and in Overijssel there are already warnings of potential power outages.

People with limited English are significantly more likely to understand the true aim of cancer treatment when given a bilingual consent form, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study finds.

Brown dwarfs get a bad rap in the stellar world, often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. The mass of these objects falls between planets and stars, ranging from 13 to 80 times the mass of Jupiter. Because they aren't massive enough to sustain fusion, they are far fainter and cooler than their stellar comrades.

DNA Commercial whaling has left the bowhead whale vulnerable for many generations to come. A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the relative impacts of humans on nature. The time series of ancient fossils show that commercial hunting of bowhead whales, which spanned 400 years and ceased less than a century ago in 1931, has left irreversible destructive traces in the species' genetics.

The Host-Microbiota Dynamics laboratory at the Institute for Translational Research (EOC-USI), led by Professor Giandomenica Iezzi, has published a new study in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe .

The modern workplace demands that our brains perform at their best every day. A campaign offers information and advice for work and daily life to help maintain a healthy mind and memory.

UCalgary researchers co-lead study with the community to find out what adolescents and young adults want scientists working on Researchers at the University of Calgary have developed 10 priorities for working with young people facing cancer.

EPFL and CSEM researchers have achieved a record 30% efficiency for triple-junction solar cells, which combine two thin-film perovskite cells and one silicon cell on a single device. The milestone could advance affordable next-generation solar technologies for space and terrestrial applications. Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory ( PV-Lab ) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM have developed a new solar cell that combines exceptional voltage, high efficiency, and scalable manufacturing.

Western and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute investigate mechanism that may protect against tumour formation For decades, large portions of the human genome were labelled "junk DNA-.

CEA-Leti to Showcase Integrated Expertise In Microelectronics Reliability at IRPS 2026 -Seven Papers Present Early-Stage Insights to Guide Technology Developers And Circuit Designers Toward Robust,

AI AI-powered clinical documentation was meant to streamline work at Danish hospitals.

Two international studies, a clinical trial led by the University of Oxford and University of Utrecht, and a qualitative study led by the University of Oxford and University of Antwerp, report that point-of-care diagnostic testing, when used alone is unlikely to reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care.

An international project has uncovered millions of ancient DNA 'switches' that have been regulating plant genes for up to 300 million years - a discovery that could pave the way for more precise engineering of crop traits.