How do we learn to associate specific objects with specific words? A team from New York University have developed an AI ‘baby’ to help us answer this question.

Revolutionising Healthcare: Multi-University AI program accepts funding from government to improve casual AI in healthcare

In his keynote presentation, Professor Mark Miodownik deliberates on the perils of consumerism, how we might manage to bring it to a sustainable future, and its obsolescence

The first transatlantic flight run on 100% sustainable fuel ran at the end of last year – it could be the start of more environmentally friendly travel

Perfectly unique snowflakes tell an interesting story of their path to the ground, led by probability and chance. A story of chemical bonds, mathematical probability and a sprinkle of physics; read on to find out how they are made.

The Scottish wildcat population has been severely weakened by genetic mixing with domestic cats. Concerted conservation efforts will be needed to restore them to their former glory

With all the exercise reindeers supposedly get up to (think flying across the globe) how do they keep cool with such a well-insulating coat? Here’s the answer

Here’s a rundown of the science stories you need to know about from the last few weeks

Blood donation is simple to do, less scary than you think, and in high demand from students

Here’s a rundown of the 2023 Nobel Prizes for science

Forget just Dry January. As more students move away from drinking, low-alcohol alternatives are being poured into the glass, but how are they made?

As artificial intelligence evolves, a new generation of more sophisticated, and more believable scams are emerging

A joint study led by The University of Manchester and Leicester has linked disturbed sleep to breathlessness in long COVID patients and proposes possible treatment solutions.

A vision for a cyberspace utopia created the world’s most extensive and read-reference information bank, and it’s still standing today

Questions are being asked about some of the organisations helping to fund graphene research

Private companies have opened up space travel by bringing costs down – Wasim Aksar takes a look at those who are going boldly where no one has gone before

Using the world’s only bespoke semi-synthetic cadaver, VIVIT provide an eerily accurate experience of dissection

Actor and writer Nathaniel Hall talks to Issy Bolitho about his upcoming one-man play that is set to start an honest conversation about being HIV-positive.

Dr Kate Shaw visit the University to talk about Physics Without Frontiers, an international effort to develop research in disenfranchised countries.

A new study has revealed how much productivity is lost from British people’s lives thanks to the mornings after the nights before