Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence, new research shows. “Our training procedure is brief and easy to ...

New research from the University of Reading sheds light on the complex relationship between time spent alone and mental health. The study, published today in Scientific Reports, reveals that solitude ...

Thousands of Airbus planes were temporarily grounded due to a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers. Professor Mathew Owens, Professor of Space Physics at ...

A 150-million-year-old stomach stone has been found in the UK, making it the oldest discovered fossil of its kind. Found by renowned palaeontologist Dr Steve Etches MBE, in Kimmeridge, Dorset, the ...

Experienced exam markers may struggle to spot answers generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), researchers have found. The study was conducted at the University of Reading, UK, where university ...

The University of Reading campus is set to become home to the largest cluster of weather and climate scientists in the world, following agreement to build a new state-of-the-art headquarters for the ...

If you’re looking for health-giving flavanols from the berries in your smoothie, order the banana on the side, say researchers. In a study, published today (25 August) in Food and Function, scientists ...

Improving scientists' ability to assess the risk and consequences of crossing tipping points in the North Atlantic and Greenland is the goal of a major new research project led by the National Centre ...

Global aviation carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1% in 2023 because planes had to fly longer routes to avoid Russian airspace, according to a new study. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February ...

An eighth-century monastery in Cookham, Berkshire, may have been one of the UK’s earliest hospices. “It is possible that the monastery may have been one of the UK’s earliest hospices, offering medical ...

Our Access and Participation Plans (APP) set out how we’re improving equality of opportunity in higher education, and are approved by the Office for Students (OfS). You’re covered by the most recent ...

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