From pint to plate: scientists brew up a new way to grow meat
Yeast left over from brewing beer can be transformed into edible ‘scaffolds’ for cultivated meat – sometimes known as lab-grown meat – which could...
Bayeux Tapestry could have been originally designed as mealtime reading for medieval monks
New research by an historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history’s biggest mysteries – the original purpose...
European farming practices drove not reduced biodiversity
Although humans are to blame for nature’s recent decline, a new study shows that for millennia, European farming practices drove biodiversity gains, not losses.
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Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought
A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in...
Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation...
Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures ever found in the Universe
An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ‘razor-thin’ string of galaxies...
New study warns of ‘creeping catastrophy’ as climate change drives a global rise in...
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens,...
Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years
A University of Cambridge-led team has reconstructed ancient anacondas from 12.4-million-year-old fossils discovered in Venezuela, to find these tropical snakes were a whopping 5.2...
Groundbreaking global bird study reveals how land-use changes are putting ecosystems at risk
Human changes to landscapes around the world are reducing the vital services that wild birds provide, making ecosystems less stable and less resilient, new...
Research unearths origins of Ancient Egypt’s Karnak Temple
Researchers have carried out the most comprehensive geoarchaeological survey of Egypt’s Karnak Temple near Luxor – one of the ancient world’s largest temple complexes...