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Washington Scientists took 4D ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women to see how their unborn babies responded to flavours from foods eaten by their mothers. The research team scanned some mothers to see fetal facial reactions to the kale and carrot flavours. Read more on Dynamite News:

North East universities have told of the measures put in place to keep freshers safe while studying in the region

The landmark study could advance understanding of how human taste and smell receptors develop

Experts used 4D ultrasounds of foetuses to check their reaction to what mothers have just eaten.

Here's how North East universities performed in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide

Letters: David Hunter sheds light on the fate of the Queen’s campus facility. Plus a letter from David Duell

Durham has become the focus of anger from both sides of the political spectrum. Students and academics try to explain why its campus skirmishes keep spilling out into the tabloids

Zorian Tytych, from Kyiv, got four As in his A-levels while helping Ukrainian refugees and soldiers in the UK.

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this was the end of a decades-long and hugely difficult journey – and arguably the most important result in the history of…