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A heart rate monitor screen showing numbers and heart rate waves

Cases of atrial fibrillation are at all-time high 

Published
Tuesday 26th April, 2022
Categories
Science
Health
Research

The number of people living with atrial fibrillation – a dangerous heart condition and major cause of stroke – has increased by 72% in England over the last two decades, according to new research.

A pathology slide of cancer cells

Using AI to detect cancer from patient data securely

Published
Monday 25th April, 2022
Categories
Technology
Science
Health
Research

A new way of using artificial intelligence to predict cancer from patient data without putting personal information at risk has been developed.

Villarica (also known as Rucapillán) volcano, located in southern Chile.

Conserving overlooked and threatened regions

Published
Thursday 7th April, 2022
Categories
Environment
Global
Research

New research shows that private protected areas help conserve underrepresented biomes and highly threatened regions.

Three workers installing solar panels

Halving emissions by 2030 can keep 1.5°C within reach

Published
Monday 4th April, 2022
Categories
Science
Environment
Research

Without significant increases in the speed and ambition of climate action, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach, according to a major international report published today.

Drone viewpoint taken looking directly down on a palm tree canopy

“Tree of life” could help slow climate change

Published
Monday 4th April, 2022
Categories
Global
Environment
Research

Changing the way fruit is gathered from a “tree of life” could have hugely positive environmental and financial impacts in Amazonia, according to a new study.

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Screen use soars among UK adults post-lockdown

Published
Friday 1st April, 2022
Categories
Health
Arts & Culture
Coronavirus
Research

New research warns that screen use significantly increased among adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns and has continued at a high rate since, highlighting the need for Government guidance.

A crowded street, with many people walking to work

Swapping cars for walking

Published
Thursday 17th March, 2022
Categories
Research
Coronavirus
Environment

People are now routinely using their cars less and walking more since the first COVID-19 lockdown, according to new research.

Ice wedges in a field, in a polygonal pattern known as ice wedge polygons.

Permafrost peatlands approaching tipping point

Published
Monday 14th March, 2022
Categories
Environment
Global
Research

Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous believed.  

Bubbles rising up to the surface of the ocean

“Seafloor fertiliser factory” helped breathe life into Earth

Published
Thursday 10th March, 2022
Categories
Environment
Science
Research

Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertiliser factory on the Earth’s seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.