News News stories Find out about the latest Biosciences news from the University of Sheffield. 3 April 2024 Bees master complex tasks through social interaction In a groundbreaking discovery, bumblebees have been shown to possess a previously unseen level of cognitive sophistication. 29 February 2024 Side effects of wide scale forestation could reduce carbon removal benefits by up to a third Enhanced weathering test fields of soybean at the Energy Farm, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign (image credit Dimitar Epihov, Leverhulme Centre, University of Sheffield) 29 February 2024 Field trials reveal crushed rock boosts carbon removal and improves crop yields Search Trees could be key protagonist for forest–grassland transitions A study investigating the transition from forests to savannas and vice versa has found trees could be the key protagonists. 1 October 2022 Breaks in ‘junk’ DNA give scientists new insight into neurological disorders ‘Junk’ DNA could unlock new treatments for neurological disorders as scientists discover how its breaks and repairs affect our protection against neurological disease. 28 September 2022 Scientists discover new protein which helps sperm fuse with an egg and could improve fertility treatments Scientists have discovered a new protein which helps sperm fuse to an egg and is fundamental for human fertilisation. 7 September 2022 Photograph by Dr Stuart Campbell Have we turned plants against us? Air pollution is a growing threat to our health and climate. But research by Dr Stuart Campbell found that its effects on plants could be worse than we initially thought. 5 September 2022 Credit: Left: ALDONA MUELLER-BIENIEK Right: ELLY VAES, RBG KEW A bitter mystery: Scientists sequence world's oldest plant genome from 6,000-year-old watermelon seeds Dr Guillaume Chomicki from our department has lead a study which has decoded the world's oldest plant genome using Neolithic-era watermelon seeds collected at an archaeological site in the Sahara Desert in Libya. 2 September 2022 | Via Phys.org Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Current page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 … Next page Next › Last page Last »