Research
Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge
Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them
Anna Fazackerley
04, Feb, 2023 @12:43 PM
Six lifestyle choices to slow memory decline named in 10-year study
Over-60s who combined more healthy lifestyle choices enjoyed most benefit, found Beijing researchers
Andrew Gregory Health editor
25, Jan, 2023 @11:30 PM
Ignore the ‘superpower’ boasts – UK pharma looks superchallenged
NHS crisis, withdrawal of tax credits and exit from EU blamed for fall in UK share of R&D market
Nils Pratley
25, Jan, 2023 @5:16 PM
Humans able to understand other apes better than thought, research suggests
Study from St Andrew’s University gauges ability of people to interpret bonobo and chimpanzee gestures
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
24, Jan, 2023 @7:00 PM
Half of glaciers will be gone by 2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds
If global heating continues at current rate of 2.7C, losses will be greater with 68% of glaciers disappearing
Phoebe Weston
05, Jan, 2023 @7:00 PM
Snakes have clitorises: scientists overcome ‘a massive taboo around female genitalia’
Scientists say previous research mistook the organs on female snakes as scent glands or under-developed versions of penises
Donna Lu
14, Dec, 2022 @2:26 AM
Donald Perkins obituary
Physicist who played a key role from the birth of particle physics in the 1940s to the discovery of the Higgs boson
Frank Close
22, Nov, 2022 @6:37 PM
Global heating to drive stronger La Niña and El Niño events by 2030, researchers say
New modelling suggests climate change-driven variability will be detectable decades earlier than previously expected
Donna Lu
16, Nov, 2022 @2:00 PM
Water fluoridation not enough to shrink dental health inequalities, study finds
Approach brings smaller benefits to children’s teeth than previously suggested
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
14, Nov, 2022 @12:01 AM
Spray-on ‘metallic’ plastic could be used for wearable electronics
Metallopolymer conducts electricity and can be painted, sprayed or moulded into any shape
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
26, Oct, 2022 @5:22 PM
UK joins international effort to uncover first moments of the universe
US-led project examines fraction of a second after big bang and ‘how all the structures in the night sky started’
Ian Sample Science editor
16, Oct, 2022 @11:01 PM
‘Things will only get worse’: fears top scientists may shun UK over Brexit
British-based Nobel prize winner says hopes for securing an alliance with the crucial Horizon Europe collaboration are fading fast
Anna Fazackerley
08, Oct, 2022 @1:32 PM
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