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Global CO2 Emissions Grew By Less Than A Percent This Year Thanks To Renewables

"Even though the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine has propped up global coal demand in 2022 by making natural gas far more expensive, the relatively small increase in coal emissions has been considerably outweighed by the expansion of renewables."

AI Uses A Scan Of Your Retina To Predict Your Risk Of Heart Disease

"AI-enabled vasculometry risk prediction is fully automated, low cost, non-invasive, and has the potential for reaching a higher proportion of the population in the community because of 'high street' availability and because blood sampling or are not needed."

Pong-playing Brain Cells Can Teach Us About Better Medicine And AI

"You can take samples from donors, grow genotypically similar neurons, which we can then use to test drugs, which will then hopefully have the same parameters as donor cells"

Cancer-killing Virus Shows Promise In Patients

A new type of cancer therapy that uses a common virus to infect and destroy harmful cells is showing big promise in early human trials, say UK scientists.

Lung Cancer Treatment: Specific Gene Mutation May Be A Key

Data from a new study found that the mutated KRAS gene influences the lipids and metabolism of lipids in lung cancer. Their findings suggest that targeting components of lipid metabolism and synthesis could be part of effective lung cancer treatments.

Breakthrough Pancreatic Cancer Research

Researchers from the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute (ONJ Cancer Research Institute) / the La Trobe University School of Cancer Medicine, have discovered a novel drug target to potentially improve the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Could Covid Vaccine Technology Crack Cancer?

Many promising cancer trials end in failure. It may be several years before we know if BioNTech's treatments for bowel cancer, melanoma and other tumour types really do live up to the hype.

How “the Most Advanced Machine Learning Approach” Is Finding New Cancer-causing Mutational Signatures

Now, with funding from Cancer Grand Challenges, a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed the newest in a suite of tools that’s quickly establishing itself as the best of the best.

Fungi And Cancerous Tumours: Scientists Uncover Association

Scientists have uncovered an association between tumours and fungi, which may lead to a deeper understanding towards the biology of certain cancers.

Cancer Death Rates Continue To Fall, Driven By New Treatments And Improved Screening

There are more cancer survivors in the U.S. than ever before, thanks to advances in cancer research.

New Ways Of Viewing Scientific History

Patricia Fara, a historian of science at Cambridge University and the 2022 recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, spoke about her work and the role of science history in today’s world. This is an extract from her interview.

Controlling Artificial Intelligence

Anthropologist Beth Singler at the University of Cambridge studies our relationship with AI and robotics and believes that we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used.