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Should You Blame Cannabis For Feeling Blah
[ad_1] Some people get a case of the blues or the blahs. But blaming anhedonia on cannabis isn’t really based in science. The blues,…
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Health
One of Tuberculosis’s Biggest, Scariest Numbers Is Probably Wrong
[ad_1] Growing up in India, which for decades has clocked millions of tuberculosis cases each year, Lalita Ramakrishnan was intimately familiar with how devastating…
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AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms
[ad_1] Newswise — Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system – in much the same way that the human…
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Cancer drug repurposed to treat inflammatory diseases
[ad_1] Newswise — A cancer drug currently in the final stages of clinical trials could offer hope for the treatment of a wide range…
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Bumblebees prioritize maximizing calorie intake in minimal time.
[ad_1] Newswise — Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time – even…
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Prior infections and vaccinations affect COVID-19 mutation vulnerability, per study.
[ad_1] Newswise — A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure – and differences…
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Experts call for urgent mental health support for people living with long term autoimmune diseases
[ad_1] Newswise — More than half of patients with auto-immune conditions experience mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety, yet the majority are…
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Troubling Trend: Greening of Peru’s Pacific Slope Raises Concerns
[ad_1] Newswise — Analysing satellite data spanning the past 20 years, the research team based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge examined how vegetation…
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Climate change threatens small, light-colored butterflies most
[ad_1] Newswise — Butterflies with smaller or lighter coloured wings are likely to be ‘losers’ when it comes to climate change, with the Lycaenidae…
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Innovative memory tech cuts energy use, boosts performance
[ad_1] Newswise — Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of…
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Volcanic Eruptions’ Climate Impact Underestimated
[ad_1] Newswise — Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth’s surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor…
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Weak policies and political ideologies risk jeopardising plans to tackle health and climate change, says Cambridge expert
[ad_1] Newswise — Efforts to tackle major issues facing the UK, including the nation’s health and climate change, are being hampered because politicians often…
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Almost half of people with concussion still show symptoms of brain injury six months later
[ad_1] Newswise — Even mild concussion can cause long-lasting effects to the brain, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. Using data from…
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New research advances stable and affordable organic solar cells for renewable electricity
[ad_1] Newswise — Due to the recent improvements in the efficiency with which solar cells made from organic (carbon-based) semiconductors can convert sunlight into…
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Increasing availability of non-alcoholic drinks may reduce amount of alcohol purchased online
[ad_1] Newswise — Increasing the proportion of non-alcoholic drinks on sale in online supermarkets could reduce the amount of alcohol people purchase, suggests a…
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Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue
[ad_1] Newswise — Philosophers seeking to answer questions around inequality in household labour and the invisibility of women’s work in the home have proposed…
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Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystal
[ad_1] Newswise — The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would…
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London Underground polluted with metallic particles small enough to enter human bloodstream
[ad_1] Newswise — The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University…
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Ethiopian schools study suggests COVID has “ruptured” social skills of the world’s poorest children
[ad_1] Newswise — School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children,…
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Plants employ chemical engineering to manufacture bee-luring optical devices
[ad_1] Newswise — While most flowers produce pigments that appear colourful and act as a visual cue to pollinators, some flowers also create microscopic…