UK apologises to Ukrainian child refugees who were told to study Russian
Exclusive: Schools minister launches new Ukrainian GCSE and says she is sorry students were pushed to study Russian in its absenceThe UK has apologise...
Study of 100,000 Australians seeks causes of mental health disorders and early onset cancer
Sax Institute is recruiting for 18 and Up, an intergenerational study of wellbeing and ageing which follows its landmark 45 and Up studyGet our breaki...
New study estimates 75% of deceased ex-NFL players had brain disease CTE
Research looked at prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2,362 players who died in 2008-2023A new study published on Wednesday estimates t...
Dementia cases in US projected to rise dramatically by 2050, study finds
Increase will add strain on healthcare system already struggling amid cuts by Trump administration, experts sayThe number of people with dementia in t...
Bust companies revived in ‘phoenix’ deals more likely to fail again, study finds
Exclusive: research for the Guardian shows ‘pre-pack’ deals with former management also pay far less to creditorsThe boss whose twice-bust business ap...
Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests
Apes in study more likely to choose treats linked to sound of peers having fun, suggesting emotions influence learningOrangutans base their food choic...
New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photographDoctors have developed an artificial inte...
‘Crucial opportunity to act’ as study finds most of Europe’s wild bee species in decline
As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps Most of Europe’s wild be...
Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds
As a surge in beekeepers has lead to increased numbers of honeybees, researchers record them pushing bumblebees and other rival species away from flow...
Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests
Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech soundsIf you want to get really good at French, A...
Study explores links between 19th-century Manchester workers and enslaved Africans in Caribbean
Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equalityThey we...
Covid, Brexit and Liz Truss mini-budget led to lasting decline in mental health, study finds
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UKBrexit, Liz Truss’s mini-bud...
Labour could oversee worst parliament on record for living standards, study warns
Energy and housing costs threaten biggest decline in modern times unless bold action taken, says thinktankSoaring energy and housing costs mean Labour...
‘Catastrophic wildfire loop’ created after colonisation left parts of Australia more at risk from bushfires, study finds
Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practice...
Gut microbes followed migrating humans across continents, new study suggests
New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: Wha...
Electric-shock gloves ICE plans to use inflicted intense pain in army study
Immigration enforcement agency has signed $16.7m deal for devices that induced ‘excessive’ fear in military subjectsThe electric-shock gloves immigrat...
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author saysUS households are paying 62% ...
Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international study finds
Researchers, who looked at UK, US and Dutch data, say lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives a yearCases of seven types of cancer have risen...
Children’s books with Black main characters down 8% in a year, study shows
Only 150 of 2,189 titles published in UK for young children last year focused on minority ethnic, disabled or neurodivergent charactersThe number of c...
May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future
EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal averageThe scorching heat that persistently baked west...
