Mother Country Radicals is described as a “family history of the Weather Underground.” Ayers Dohrn’s parents were radicals and counter-culture outlaws, fugitives from the FBI. In...
Researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms...
As with many of Caltech’s time-honored traditions, the annual ME72 Engineering Design Competition pushes students to the limits of possibility. Unlike other Caltech traditions, ME72 involves...
Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot looks...
Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus. Who’d have thought that a mussel, that doesn’t even have a...
Writing for The Conversation, Dr Maarja Luhiste and Zachary Greene outline why the war in Ukraine has been a key issue in the Estonian elections. Russia’s...
A pioneering new method to assess the quality of organs for donation has the potential to revolutionise the transplant system, saving lives and tens of millions...
Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a Cambridge study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale...
A unique artefact discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda may have been used as a device during sex rather than as a good luck symbol,...
With the atlas, researchers found features of motor neurons that make them vulnerable to ALS and cells that may be central regulators of chronic pain When...