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Some people get a case of the blues or the blahs. But blaming anhedonia on cannabis isn’t really based in science. The blues, the blahs, depression, or just…
Read more Should You Blame Cannabis For Feeling BlahGrowing up in India, which for decades has clocked millions of tuberculosis cases each year, Lalita Ramakrishnan was intimately familiar with how devastating the disease can be. The…
Read more One of Tuberculosis’s Biggest, Scariest Numbers Is Probably WrongNewswise — Cambridge scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system – in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and…
Read more AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organismsNewswise — A cancer drug currently in the final stages of clinical trials could offer hope for the treatment of a wide range of inflammatory diseases, including gout,…
Read more Cancer drug repurposed to treat inflammatory diseasesNewswise — Research has found that bumblebees make foraging choices to collect the most sugar from flowers in the shortest time – even if that means using more…
Read more Bumblebees prioritize maximizing calorie intake in minimal time.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 in the focus of immune…
Read more Prior infections and vaccinations affect COVID-19 mutation vulnerability, per study.Newswise — More than half of patients with auto-immune conditions experience mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety, yet the majority are rarely or never asked in…
Read more Experts call for urgent mental health support for people living with long term autoimmune diseasesNewswise — Analysing satellite data spanning the past 20 years, the research team based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge examined how vegetation has been changing along the…
Read more Troubling Trend: Greening of Peru’s Pacific Slope Raises ConcernsNewswise — Butterflies with smaller or lighter coloured wings are likely to be ‘losers’ when it comes to climate change, with the Lycaenidae family, which contains over 6,000…
Read more Climate change threatens small, light-colored butterflies mostNewswise — Researchers have developed a new design for computer memory that could both greatly improve performance and reduce the energy demands of internet and communications technologies, which…
Read more Innovative memory tech cuts energy use, boosts performanceNewswise — Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth’s surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor of two, and potentially as…
Read more Volcanic Eruptions’ Climate Impact UnderestimatedNewswise — Efforts to tackle major issues facing the UK, including the nation’s health and climate change, are being hampered because politicians often ignore the existing evidence when…
Read more Weak policies and political ideologies risk jeopardising plans to tackle health and climate change, says Cambridge expertNewswise — Even mild concussion can cause long-lasting effects to the brain, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. Using data from a Europe-wide study, the team…
Read more Almost half of people with concussion still show symptoms of brain injury six months laterNewswise — Due to the recent improvements in the efficiency with which solar cells made from organic (carbon-based) semiconductors can convert sunlight into electricity, improving the long-term stability…
Read more New research advances stable and affordable organic solar cells for renewable electricityNewswise — Increasing the proportion of non-alcoholic drinks on sale in online supermarkets could reduce the amount of alcohol people purchase, suggests a study published today led by…
Read more Increasing availability of non-alcoholic drinks may reduce amount of alcohol purchased onlineNewswise — Philosophers seeking to answer questions around inequality in household labour and the invisibility of women’s work in the home have proposed a new theory – that…
Read more Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argueNewswise — The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would be from the three dimensions…
Read more Dynamical fractal discovered in clean magnetic crystalNewswise — The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of Cambridge researchers. These particles…
Read more London Underground polluted with metallic particles small enough to enter human bloodstreamNewswise — School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children, as well as their academic…
Read more Ethiopian schools study suggests COVID has “ruptured” social skills of the world’s poorest childrenNewswise — While most flowers produce pigments that appear colourful and act as a visual cue to pollinators, some flowers also create microscopic three-dimensional patterns on their petal…
Read more Plants employ chemical engineering to manufacture bee-luring optical devices
