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Angharad Brewer Gillham
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Featured news
04 Nov 2024
Scientists create a world-first 3D cell model to help develop treatments for devastating lip injuries
Scientists have successfully immortalized lip cells, allowing new treatments for injuries and infections to be trialed on a clinically relevant lab-based model.
Featured news
21 Oct 2024
Male flies with shorter eyestalks make up for being less attractive by fighting more fiercely
Male stalk-eyed flies with longer eyestalks are more attractive to females and more intimidating to males — but males with a genetic variant that causes shorter eyestalks are fiercer fighters.
Featured news
15 Oct 2024
How ‘vaccinating’ plants could reduce pesticide use and secure global food supplies
Induced resistance, where plants’ immune systems are activated in a controlled way that prepares them to fight pests and disease, could help build a sustainable and resilient agricultural system
Featured news
11 Oct 2024
Different types of teenage friendships critical to wellbeing as we age, scientists find
Scientists find that peer acceptance in young teenagers, and close friendships in older teenagers, predict low social anxiety and high life satisfaction in young adults.
Featured news
04 Oct 2024
How future heatwaves at sea could devastate UK marine ecosystems and fisheries
Around the world, marine heatwaves have devastated fisheries, coral reefs, and kelp forests, damaging economies and stripping countries’ natural capital. So far, the UK has largely escaped a serious marine heatwave – but a short-lived, intense June 2023 heatwave shows what could happen.
Featured news
01 Oct 2024
Understanding regional climate change is essential for guiding effective climate adaptation policy, study finds
From intensified monsoons and storm tracks to polar precipitation shifts, a new synthesis of regional climate data emphasizes the need for climate adaptation policy based on the latest regional climate science.
Environment
26 Sep 2024
Mysterious orca group near Chile tracked down, revealing newly discovered hunting skills
Dramatic new images of orcas in the Humboldt Current system hunting and eating dusky dolphins could help scientists learn more about all southern hemisphere orcas.
Life sciences
24 Sep 2024
New indoor vertical farming research could help future-proof food demand for a changing planet
Scientists explore how dynamic environmental control in indoor farms could help us feed a growing population with nutritious, high-quality, locally grown fruit and veg
Featured news
12 Sep 2024
Kids in families with too much screen time struggle with language skills
Scientists find that children whose families use screens a lot have weaker vocabulary skills — and videogames have the biggest negative effect.
Featured news
05 Sep 2024
Will humans accept robots that can lie? Scientists find it depends on the lie
Scientists find that a lie that protects someone’s feelings is acceptable, but lies which misrepresent a robot’s abilities aren’t.
Featured news
22 Aug 2024
Prof Carl Kocher explores how you can stretch your mind to grasp quantum entanglement
In this guest editorial, inspired by his new article in Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology, Prof Carl Kocher explains his groundbreaking 1964-67 experiments in quantum entanglement and helps us stretch our minds to understand this apparently paradoxical phenomenon.
Health
16 Aug 2024
Arts and crafts improves your mental health as much as having a job, scientists find
Scientists find that taking part in creative activities boosts people’s sense that life is worthwhile, their happiness, and their satisfaction with life.
Featured news
05 Aug 2024
Streetlights running all night makes leaves so tough that insects can’t eat them, threatening the food chain
Scientists find that trees on streets exposed to artificial light at night have tougher leaves and are less likely to be eaten by insects, potentially damaging urban biodiversity
Featured news
30 Jul 2024
Three-step plan to cut overlooked methane emissions could help us stop global warming faster
Methane, the second most potent greenhouse gas, has been neglected—but now scientists lay out a new plan and a new tool to cut emissions down to size.
Humanities
24 Jul 2024
Cook like a Neanderthal: scientists try to replicate ancient butchering methods to learn how Neanderthals ate birds
A pilot study indicates that fire-roasted birds are easier to process, but only birds butchered raw show cutmarks — evidence that we can use to understand Neanderthal diets.