A new study investigating neuroinflammation in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, a small, midbrain dopaminergic ...

The scarcity of silicon, aluminium and lithium threatens the development of key technologies for the green transitio ...

You’ve just bought a new apartment. The developer followed the minimum building code requirements. So shouldn’t everything be ...

Blueberry plants host diverse fungal communities on their aboveground tissues, yet how these communities shift across flower ...

Humans can “catch” fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings – by a team of psychologists from the University of ...

There are many different types of PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’. Maybe it is time to prohibit them all.

Adolescents who are most active on social media are also more often victims of cyberbullying. But the reality is  not as ...

There’s no getting around it: downsizing the kind of housing you live in is the best thing you can do for the environment.

Magnetic skyrmions are particle-like objects that can be used as information carriers in memory and computing devices.

Scientists have delivered the most detailed assessment yet of a set of disputed lead books known as the Jordan codices. With ...

The Office for Students (OfS) has granted £2.5m to Aston University to redevelop its biosciences teaching laboratories.

Human influence across centuries continues to define biodiversity and carbon storage in the world’s largest rainforest, according to a new ...