The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen a wide variety of untested off-the-shelf COVID treatments suggested – from Trump’s infamous disinfectants to more traditional herbal remedies, the idea of a simple protection from the deadly disease has proven an appealing one. Amongst these suggestions though, it’s vitamin D that has gained […]

One of the UK’s largest academic prizes is being launched at Heriot-Watt University today, coinciding with the institution’s 200th anniversary of its founding in Scotland.  The inaugural Panmure House Prize is a $75,000 award to promote and encourage pioneering research in long-term investment to fund radical innovation. The research area is in the […]

Fossils found in Australia and studied by a University of Hull researcher have revealed new details on some of the earliest marine life on Earth. Experts uncovered fossils of Earth’s first macroscopic animals – the roughly 550-million-year-old Ediacara biota – in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. Scientists had previously thought that these archaic […]