science wire

From April to September 2024, public buses in four Austrian federal states served as mobile insect researchers.

Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed the first robust, noninvasive way to detect damaging brain waves that worsen traumatic brain injuries.

When a neurosurgeon claimed he glimpsed the afterlife during a coma, skeptics offered a more earthly interpretation - a surge of DMT produced by his own body.

Whole genome sequencing offered to breast cancer patients is likely to identify unique genetic features that could either guide immediate treatment or help match patients to clinical trials for over 15,000 women a year, say scientists at the University of Cambridge. The UK is a genuine world-leader in terms of its ability to do whole genome sequencing in the NHS through the Genomic Medicine Service.

In Switzerland, 88.3% of wolves' diet consists of wild animals, particularly deer, and 11.7% of livestock, mainly sheep.

Blast fishing causes long-lasting damage to coral reefs, finds new research co-led by former UCL researcher Satrio Hani Samudra (UCL Division of Biosciences).

Juli Peretó and Pablo Carbonell, researchers at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Spanish National Research Council (C

A research team led by Professor Patrique Fiedler from TU Ilmenau has won second place in the international INNOspace Masters 2025 innovation competition organized by the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Center with a new method for monitoring brain activity in space.

For more than a decade, Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist  Aryn Gittis has been unraveling the mystery of how the brain controls movement.

Last Updated: 01 Oct 2025 14:39:25 The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has signed a scientific collaboration agreement with Forcefield Therapeutics to expand its research in precision cut tissue slices

University of Warwick research demonstrates how to engineer 'cell factories' that last longer and produce more chemicals, without needing antibiotics or complex engineering methods, paving the way for sustainable biotech that lasts. Synthetic biology aims to engineer living cells, often bacteria, to become chemical factories, pumping out chemicals important to healthcare, industry, and the environment.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alexander Piel (UCL Anthropology) explains how wild mushrooms may have been a key part of the diets of early humans and primates - and highlights their significance for ecology and evolution.

An international study surveying microbiome scientists found that when it comes to data reuse, a universal set of ethical guidelines driven by the scientific community needs to be adapted.

Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has launched Viro3D - the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure predictions in the world. A free and searchable AI-powered database, Viro3D offers a completely new, in-depth perspective on viruses, allowing us to learn more and faster about their origins and evolution.

In his inaugural lecture today, Professor Massimo Sartori introduced the concept of the neuromuscular robotics revolution.

A global clinical trial for a new Huntington's disease treatment has posted positive results today, announced by trial sponsor uniQure and UCL scientists.

For immune cells, the actin cytoskeleton is more than a structural scaffold. Immune cells can migrate to sites of infection or form precise, short-lived contacts with other cells, by constantly reshaping their actin cytoskeleton.

A Simon Fraser University-led clinical research study is evaluating how advanced brain imaging could improve epilepsy surgery in British Columbia.

Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers have shown that a simple, noninvasive light-based technology could help doctors better track how sickle cell disease affects the brain as patients age.

According to the World Health Organisation, tuberculosis accounts for one in three deaths among people living with HIV.

Most patients with a spinal cord injury suffer from debilitating pressure drops or dangerous pressure peaks.

In the fight against the enormous energy demands of current technologies, Mathieu Baltussen of Radboud University has taken an innovative step.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet - combining a small set of simple motions to create a vocabulary of everyday actions. Understanding how people use tools so fluidly could lead to better prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, robots and new ways to treat problems caused by brain injury.

Groundbreaking trial demonstrates surgical treatment produced significant improvements in walking speed and balance after just three months When Jill Knaus shuffled into the Adult Hydrocephalus Program she was hoping to find answers to her health concerns.

Bacteria Two forgotten bottles in a basement in Frederiksberg containing bacterial cultures from the 1890s have provided researchers at the University of Copenhagen with unique insight into Denmark's butter production history.

During her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rossana Bettoni investigated how cells in an embryo know exactly what they should become.

Posted on: 12 September 2025 Lifetime significant experiences, in particular the social ones, are the fabric of our identity.

in the Amazon region and in Southeast Asia, reduced rainfall, deforestation and fires are already leading to a deterioration in forest quality and changes in ecosystems," says Alexandra Nora Müllner-Riehl from the Institute of Biology at Leipzig University.

An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from UCL and the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences , opening up new possibilities for neurological research and treatment of disorders such as Parkinson's disease and depression.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Eleftheria Kodosaki (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) explains how a new test could help to diagnose memory issues associated with Alzheimer's disease in as little as three minutes.

Caltech researchers have developed a powerful new method for creating embryo-like structures from stem cells that could transform how we study fertility. Using stem cells rather than a traditional fertilized egg, the team has built mouse embryo models called iG4-blastoids that closely mimic natural blastocysts, the stage of development when an embryo implants into the uterus.

Biologists at the University of Münster reveal details of how cell junctions form in epithelia Epithelial tissues cover the inner and outer surfaces of the body, and neither animals nor humans could develop and survive without them. Robust yet flexible connections between individual cells are necessary for the stability of epithelia.

Scientists from our top-rated Biosciences Department and partner institutions have created the first ever complete map of a hidden system that helps plants survive when the world around them changes. The research focuses on a process called SUMOylation (a way that cells fine-tune how proteins work).

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grants this year to nine researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).