Gemma Conroy

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The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain

May 27, 2025 | 08:00PM

How the brain spies on the gut: with help from newfound immune cells
Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart

May 13, 2025 | 08:00PM

‘I don’t have the bandwidth’: how to juggle dating alongside a PhD
Finding adds to the bigger picture of how humans developed such large brains

May 13, 2025 | 08:00PM

Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA
Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases

April 07, 2025 | 08:00PM

Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture

March 06, 2025 | 08:00PM

‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?
When Ho Thi Thanh Van isn’t creating materials for fuel cells, she is cultivating traditional medicines

February 09, 2025 | 08:00PM

I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory
Government policies, generous funding and a pipeline of AI graduates have helped Chinese firms create advanced LLMs

January 29, 2025 | 08:00PM

How China created AI model DeepSeek and shocked the world
A survey highlights the emotional toll of retractions for authors and what could be done differently

January 13, 2025 | 08:00PM

Retractions caused by honest mistakes are extremely stressful, say researchers
3D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners

December 18, 2024 | 08:00PM

Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor ‘Lucy’ didn’t go far or fast
Ultra-sensitive detectors have observed neutrinos from the Sun, whose signals mimic those expected to be produced by elusive dark matter

December 12, 2024 | 08:00PM

First sighting of ‘neutrino fog’ sparks excitement – but is it bad news for dark matter?

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