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Consumers would be willing to buy milk from cows only treated with antibiotics when medically necessary – as long as the price isn’t much higher than conventional milk, according to researchers.

"Doping" ceramic gas purification catalysts with transition metals reduces their operating temperature, helping us to breathe cleaner air.

A study has shown that, in mice, eating a diet exclusively high in saturated fats can reprogram the immune system, making it better able to fight off infection but more susceptible to systemic inflammatory conditions, including sepsis.

Scientists have developed a new sensor device for determining cholesterol levels in the blood. The new technology is cheaper, more efficient and faster than traditional approaches.

Tailoring the analysis of whole genome sequencing to individual patients could double the diagnostic rates of rare diseases, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

We take our ability to understand human speech for granted. But our innate skill at decoding the complex and varied sounds we use to communicate remains something of a mystery to scientists studying the brain. A new research paper has provided some answers, showing that the brain “time-stamps” sounds arriving at the ear.

Scientists from Princeton Engineering have created a new material using egg whites. The material – an aerogel – can be used to purify water, removing microplastics, with a high efficiency.

Researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) have engineered donor T-cells to try and treat seriously ill children with resistant leukemia, who had otherwise exhausted all available therapies.

Take a common form of yeast, a 3D printer and some clever science, and what do you have? A versatile and nutritious food system for tomorrow’s discerning space traveler.

A subset of melanoma has been identified as having a low risk of death, which researchers hope could lead to a reclassification of the disease.