The Conversation

[:eu]The World Health Organisation has estimated that two fifths of the 14m cases of cancer that are diagnosed every year are preventable. The main preventable causes of cancer are diet, […]

[:eu]Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.[:]

[:eu]Musk originally intended the Hyperloop to cover the 600km route from Los Angeles to San Francisco at an average speed of about 960kph, reducing what’s currently a 12-hour train journey […]

[:eu]When a virus infects a living cell, it hijacks and reprograms the cell to turn it into a virus-producing factory. Now scientists at the University of California have for the […]

[:eu]So would it possible in the real world? Let’s not worry about the vast quantities of raw materials required. [:]

[:eu]Plants are often used not just as food and clothing but as part of complex technologies. Here are some more amazing ways we can use vegetation.[:]

[:eu]Sutton Hoo in East Anglia is one of the most important archaeological sites in England. The weapons, clothing and other objects buried in the Anglo-Saxon cemeteries show that trade networks […]

[:eu]The search for mysterious “fast radio bursts” – very brief but intense pulses of radio waves from outer space – is heating up. Nobody knows what causes these powerful bursts, […]

[:en]Recent work reveals that a small number of people may have extraordinary face recognition skills, outperforming typical people on a range of face recognition tasks.[:]