A Simple One-Week-Long Break From Social Media Can Improve Your Health
Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety. According to…
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Genes Are Switched On in the Human Embryo From the Get-Go – Challenging the Way We Think About Our Developmental Origins
The finding that some genes are active from the get-go challenges the textbook view that genes don’t become active in human embryos until they are…
“Active Matter” Breakthrough Enables Shape-Shifting Next-Generation Robots
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. Physicists…
War in the Time of Neanderthals: How Our Species Battled for Supremacy for Over 100,000 Years
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe,…
Physicists Discover a New Photonic Effect That Could Accelerate the Discovery of Life-Saving Medicines
Keeping up with the first law of robotics: a new photonic effect for accelerated drug discovery. Physicists at the University of Bath and University of…
Scientists Homing In on a Cure for Parkinson’s Disease
A peptide known to prevent the protein error that gives rise to Parkinson’s disease has been optimized by scientists, making it a strong candidate for…
New Fearsome Predatory Dinosaur Discovered: An Ancient Relative of Velociraptor Is Unearthed in Great Britain
A new bird-like dinosaur that used brute strength to overcome its prey has been found by paleontologists combing through fossils found on the Isle of…
Tangles in DNA Strands Can Help Predict Evolution of Mutations
Researchers from the Milner Centre for Evolution have identified evolutionary hotspots in DNA where mutations are more likely. Tangles in unwound DNA can create mutational…
Bacteria Could Help Build Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Construction Materials
Researchers at the University of Bath are investigating whether the natural properties of bacteria could help in developing a new type of environmentally friendly plasterboard….
The Nanophotonics Orchestra Presents: Twisting to the Light of Nanoparticles To Reveal “Forbidden” Colors
Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK observe a new physical effect in chiral (twisted) nanoparticles. Physics researchers at the University of Bath…
Spice (Synthetic Marijuana) Withdrawal Symptoms More Severe Than Cannabis
New research from the Addiction and Mental Health Group at the University of Bath highlights challenges for people trying to give up the drug ‘Spice.’…
All Living Snakes Evolved From a Few Survivors of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Research from the Milner Center for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. A…
More Vaccinated People Are Dying of COVID in England Than Unvaccinated – Here’s Why
More vaccinated people are dying of COVID than unvaccinated people, according to a recent report from Public Health England (PHE). The report shows that 163 of the…
Meringue-Like Graphene-Based Aerogel Material Could Make Aircraft As Quiet as a Hairdryer
Extremely low-density graphene-based aerogel ‘meringue’ can improve passenger comfort and reduce noise up to 80%. An incredibly light new material that can reduce aircraft engine…
Mysteries of Epigenetics: There’s More to Genes Than DNA
Biologists in the UK and Austria have discovered 71 new imprinted genes in the mouse genome. Biologists at the Universities of Bath and Vienna have…
Astrophysicists Solve a Mysterious Decades-Long Gamma-Ray Burst Puzzle
Astrophysicists from the University of Bath in the UK find the magnetic field in gamma-ray bursts is scrambled after the ejected material crashes into, and…
New Research: Intermittent Fasting “No Magic Bullet for Weight Loss”
New research published this week challenges a popular belief that intermittent fasting diets such as alternate day fasting or the ‘5:2’ are the most effective…
Physicists Uncover New Mechanism Enabling Magnetism and Superconductivity to Co-exist in the Same Material
Why Deep Freezing Iron-Based Materials Makes Them Both Magnetic and Superconducting Physicists at the University of Bath, in collaboration with researchers from the USA, have…
