The 6 best deals in the massive Dell TechFest sale – laptops from $279.99

The 6 best deals in the massive Dell TechFest sale – laptops from 9.99

Dell has launched a massive month-long sale featuring terrific deals across a variety of laptops, PCs, monitors and other computing hardware. Given we rate Dell devices such as the Inspiron and XPS lineup as some of the best laptops you can buy, I’ve focused on those here and picked out six of the best laptop … Read more

Cracking epigenetic inheritance: Biologists discovered the secrets of how gene traits are passed on

Cracking epigenetic inheritance: Biologists discovered the secrets of how gene traits are passed on

A research team led by Professor Yuanliang ZHAI at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) collaborating with Professor Ning GAO and Professor Qing LI from Peking University (PKU), as well as Professor Bik-Kwoon TYE from Cornell University, has recently made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the DNA copying machine … Read more

Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout

Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout

Megan Majocha, a tumour-biology researcher in the laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, says Deaf researchers shouldn’t have to spend time developing sign language for their science.Credit: NIH Sign language in science The lack of scientific terms and vocabulary in many of the world’s sign languages can make science education … Read more

Children surpass a year of HIV remission after treatment pause

Children surpass a year of HIV remission after treatment pause

Four children have remained free of detectable HIV for more than one year after their antiretroviral therapy (ART) was paused to see if they could achieve HIV remission, according to a presentation today at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver. The children, who acquired HIV before birth, were enrolled in … Read more

How sacked whistle-blower Susanne Täuber’s career fared after she spoke out

How sacked whistle-blower Susanne Täuber’s career fared after she spoke out

A district court judge ruled on Susanne Täuber’s dismissal on International Women’s Day last year.Credit: Susanne Täuber I began a position as a gender-equality researcher at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 2009, achieving tenure in 2015. I was studying factors that undermine the effective implementation of policy into practice. In 2018, after … Read more

Can you really meditate in VR? I tried Headspace XR at Meta’s London HQ

Can you really meditate in VR? I tried Headspace XR at Meta’s London HQ

I’m trying to breathe slowly, relaxing my shoulders and following the visual cues inside a pastel-colored world bathed in an orange sunset. It was almost easy to forget I was being watched carefully by several Meta and Headspace representatives, like a sort of laboratory experiment.  Trying to act natural and relaxed, while being watched and … Read more

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth — dating from 390 million years ago — has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of South West England. The fossils, discovered and identified by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff, are the oldest fossilised trees ever found in … Read more