Juanita Bawagan

Video: Karen O’Malley is living well with advanced bowel cancer and pursuing her passion for wild swimming, thanks to a combination of chemotherapy and a targeted drug.

This International Women’s Day, we are introducing some of our researchers to help #BreakTheBias, and showcasing the full lives and passions of our scientists outside the lab.

Caught between child and adult care, young adult cancer patients face unique challenges.

Motivation has declined in schools, but relationships can help

Looking more closely at how children learn and progress can demystify pathways in learning.

Taken from the August 2021 issue of Physics World.

A feature I wrote for the 10-year anniversary of canSAR -- the largest, public cancer drug discovery platform in the world.

Several major scientific-journal publishers have launched policies that allow scientists to easily change their name on previous publications – a move that transgender researchers have been campaigning to introduce for years.

Modern algorithms have transformed our understanding of the “Turing Test” and what it means for artificial intelligence

Deciding what we need in our lives and what to cut out is no simple task. When it comes to our cells, this responsibility lies with the spliceosome.

Researchers found that observing an older sibling’s risk-taking can change the behaviour and brain patterns of younger siblings.

Image: Transcriptomes heatmap example. Credit: Thomas Shafee/Wikimedia Commons, CC by 4.0

Twenty-five years ago, a team of researchers made a historic discovery, here are some of their stories.

Smartphone games have the potential to reveal how our brains reach decisions and how these processes can go awry

How can we calculate the true toll of the pandemic?