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Ancient skull reveals how all brown bears carry genes of polar cousin

Researchers were able to obtain DNA from the skull of a young polar bear that lived 100,000 years ago.

Netflix-style algorithm could help guide cancer treatments, study suggests

It is hoped that one day doctors will be able to look at a patient’s fully sequenced tumour and offer more personalised cancer treatment.

Scientific journals ‘pretty close’ to ideal system for transgender name changes

In the past, trans researchers would either have to put up with their former names appearing on papers they had authored, or prove their identity.

Eight-ton mastodon’s life history decoded using its fossilised tusk in a first

‘You’ve got a whole life spread out before you in that tusk’

Scientists develop screening process to calculate heart attack risk from routine eye test

Scientists say method may also be developed to identify people’s propensity to other diseases like diabetic retinopathy

New data reveals stars experience ‘quakes’ like on Earth

The team working on the space observatory is led by scientists and astronomers at Cambridge University.

Ocean plastic pollution could be source of new antibiotics, study suggests

Scientists say they could isolate five antibiotic-producing bacteria from ocean plastic

Healthy human brains are hotter than previously thought, exceeding 40C – study

The study also found that brain temperature drops at night, and increases during the day.

Study aims to improve tests to predict antibiotic resistance

Earlier this year, a study estimated that antimicrobial resistance caused 1.27 million deaths in 2019.

Japanese scientists develop ‘Terminator’-style robotic fingers

‘It’s interesting to hear the sound of the motor in harmony with a finger that looks like a real one,’ University of Tokyo expert says

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