Jason Beer KC has been appointed to chair Part Two of the Independent Review established by the University of Cambridge following the death of Professor Jason Arday in August 2026.

After a search lasting more than four decades, a UK-led team of physicists have found evidence for the rarest decay of a subatomic ‘beauty’ particle ever seen. The results could open the door to a ...

Forgotten recordings made by a pioneering Black academic allow contemporary linguists to hear for the first time how the ...

Comets didn’t seed life on Earth after all, a new study suggests, potentially overturning a century-old idea. The theory that ...

Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around one million square kilometres more than previously thought, after researchers used clues from a warm period 6,000 years ago to improve the ...

Researchers studying a giant tortoise named Jonathan say it’s not just good genes, but lack of genetic wear and tear that have kept him going for nearly two centuries. We found that the gene ...

The findings suggest that some psychological differences between males and females (such the development of social skills) may be influenced by both prenatal biology as well as later experience. The ...

Scientists have discovered several 518-million-year-old fossils that reshape the origins of the group of animals that contains starfish, and found that they ate their food using tentacles, and not ...

Many skilled older workers seek to transition from full-time stressful jobs to more flexible work, but freelance employment platforms don’t adequately recognise their credentials so there is a ...

Reading for pleasure – from tucking into a Jane Austen classic to devouring a Heartstopper graphic novel – is linked to better mental health, greater empathy and a lower risk of dementia, say ...