Gaia: scientists take a step closer to revealing origins of our galaxy
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, announced the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe...
New Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb
A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb - a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs.
An international...
Scientists use AI to identify new drug combination for children with incurable brain cancer
Scientists have used artificial intelligence-enhanced tools to successfully propose a new combination of drugs for use against an incurable childhood brain cancer.
The approach, which...
‘Tatooine-like’ exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University...
Scientists discover world’s longest underwater avalanche after rescue of lost data
Sensors that were being used to monitor one of the world’s biggest underwater valleys, the Congo Canyon, were scattered across the Atlantic Ocean by...
Billions of tonnes of ice lost from Antarctic Ice sheet
Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over a 25-year period.
If...
Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead
A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and...
Half-a-billion year old worm fossils shed new light on animal evolution
Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on...
Manchester researchers lead survey design for Europe-wide study of young people’s well-being
Manchester Metropolitan University researchers are leading the design of a survey for the first Europe-wide project to track the well-being of children as they...
Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars
An international team of astronomers including the University of Manchester, have detected some of the tiniest diamonds in the universe swirling around three infant...