Study Finds Probiotics and Prebiotics Work Differently in Girls and Boys
The team from the Universities of Bristol and Reading found that 28-day old piglets produced very different levels of immune cells, antibodies, and other immune-associated…
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What Came First, the Animal or the Embryo? New Research Has Answer
Animal embryos evolved before animals. Animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, before diversifying into 30 or 40 distinct anatomical designs. When and how animal ancestors made…
It Seems There Were Too Many Meat-Eating Dinosaurs – This May Be the Explanation
A big problem with dinosaurs is that there seems to be too many meat-eaters. From studies of modern animals, there is a feeding pyramid, with…
The Last Mass Extinction Event Occurred 66 Million Years Ago – Here’s How Ocean Ecosystems Recovered
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have produced an unprecedented record of the biotic recovery of ocean ecosystems that followed…
Mantis: Affordable and Accessible Haptic Force Feedback [Video]
Imagine being able to build and use a robotic device without the need for expensive, specialist kit or skills. That is the vision that researchers…
First Ticklish Devices Created With Bio-Driven Artificial Skin [Video]
A new interface developed by researchers in Bristol and Paris takes touch technology to the next level, by providing an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting…
Physicists Challenge the Accepted Wisdom on How Liquids Behave With Other Materials
Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), challenge the accepted wisdom on wetting and drying phase behavior. The authors…
Archaeological Find: Prehistoric Babies Fed Animal Milk in Bottles
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found the first evidence that prehistoric babies were fed animal milk using the equivalent…
Taking Acetaminophen During Pregnancy Linked to Childhood Behavior Problems
The research published to be published today, September 15, 2019, in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology examined whether there were any effects of taking acetaminophen (also…
Warning: Hidden Danger From Pet Dogs Discovered
Researchers at the Universities of Abuja and Nigeria, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have detected a potentially human-infective microbe in pet dogs in…
65 Year Old Math Puzzle Finally Solved With Ingenuity and a Supercomputer
Sum of three cubes for 42 finally solved – using real life planetary computer. Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking ‘Sum-Of-Three-Cubes’ solution for the…
Cancer Risk From Being Overweight at Least Double Previous Estimates
The effect of being overweight and obesity on risk of cancer is at least twice as large as previously thought according to new findings by…
Scientists Link Dinosaur Expansion to the Carnian Pluvial Episode
It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang – wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years…
New Discovery Changes Perceptions of the Evolution of Earth’s Biosphere
For the first four billion years of Earth’s history, our planet’s continents would have been devoid of all life except microbes. All of this changed…
Engineered Synthetic Scaffolds Mark a New Era in Cellular Design
Researchers at the universities of Kent and Bristol have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications…
Biologists Reveal How Cells Rebuild After Mitosis
University of Bristol research has revealed how cells rebuild their nucleus and organise their genome when they divide – a discovery which could have major…
New Details on the Unexpected Atmospheric Vortex Behavior on Titan
New research shows that the recently reported unexpected behaviour on Saturn’s largest moon Titan is due to its unique atmospheric chemistry. Titan’s polar atmosphere recently…
New Research Reveals How Circumbinary Planets Form
New research from the University of Bristol reveals how circumbinary planets form. Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler-34(AB)b is a circumbinary planet, so-called because…