Tom Crawford teaches at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. At Oxford he is the Public Engagement Lead at the Department for Continuing Education, and a fe ...

(via Steve Mould) Döbereiner's lamp uses a platinum catalyst to react hydrogen with oxygen.

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a blood test that can identify early signs of Alzheimer’s ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s ...

For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster ...

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and ...

A new study has highlighted the complex emotions and ethical dilemmas of learning your future risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

The double-slit experiment is a famous quantum physics experiment that shows that light exhibits behavior of both a particle ...

In February 2025, a number of running world records were absolutely demolished by athletes who claimed they gained an edge ...

More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almos ...

Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ...

Tirzepatide (trade name Zepbound) promoted greater weight loss in individuals with obesity than did semaglutide (trade name ...