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Research

July 2024

  • Teenager using phone while laying down on the sofa

    Teenagers displaying ‘problematic phone use’ more likely to be depressed

  • Rosemary Grant in front of flower beds in bloom in the grounds of Guyot Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey.

    Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

  • Arash Abizadeh

    Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that

    Arash Abizadeh
  • Standup comedian on stage in a beam of light.

    Live comedy in UK has become serious business worth £1bn a year, study claims

  • ‘Africa’s most resilient lion’ and his brother filmed making 1.5km swim across dangerous African river

  • Hippos might fly: UK research discovers animal can get airborne

June 2024

  • Scientist working in a lab

    Top scientists turning down UK jobs over ‘tax on talent’, says Wellcome boss

    Next government urged to lower upfront visa costs that are 17 times higher than international average
  • OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT

    Researchers fool university markers with AI-generated exam papers

    University of Reading project poses questions for ‘integrity’ of coursework and take-home student assignments
  • Moai statues lined up with a volcano behind and water to the left

    Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

    Researchers challenge long-held idea that islanders chopped down palm trees at an unsustainable rate

May 2024

  • Off-shore oil platform

    No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds

    Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached
  • Cruise ship with smoke pouring from its funnel

    ‘Termination shock’: cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt

    Sudden cut in pollution in 2020 meant less shade from sun and was ‘substantial’ factor in record surface temperatures in 2023, study finds
  • A child holding a red plastic toy train.

    Ditch brightly coloured plastic, anti-waste researchers tell firms

    Studies find red, blue and green plastic decomposes into microplastic particles faster than plainer colours

April 2024

  • Prostate cancer trial<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY MAY 1 File photo dated 05/06/2020 of a paramedic holding a test tube containing a blood sample. Methods of screening men for prostate cancer are set to be trialled in a bid to save thousands of lives in the UK each year. The £42 million project, known as Transform, has been hailed as "a pivotal moment in the history of prostate cancer research" by experts. It is also hoped the research will help men avoid harm from potentially unnecessary biopsies and treatment. Issue date: Wednesday May 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Prostate. Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

    Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

    Transform project has potential to reduce deaths from the disease by 40%, savings thousands of lives a year in UK

March 2024

  • Frans de Waal, primatologist and author, poses with chimpanzees at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, January 22, 2006. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

    Frans de Waal obituary

  • Dog holding a slipper in mouth

    Dogs can understand the meaning of nouns, new research finds

  • Man holding an open academic-looking book

    ‘Exorbitant’ fees paid to academic publishers better spent on Australian research and education, report finds

  • An illustration of a witch trial by ducking, circa 1600. In his book Instruments of Darkness, 1996, Sharpe revitalised the study of British witchcraft.

    James Sharpe obituary

  • Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishers gatekeeping knowledge

  • Head of UK science body calls for ‘creative disagreement’ after Michelle Donelan libel row

  • A new understanding: how research into autism is evolving

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