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Fertilisers Limit Pollination By Changing How Bumblebees Sense Flowers

Pollinators are less likely to land on flowers sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides as they can detect electric field changes around the flower, researchers at the University of Bristol have found.

Scientists Closer To Solving A Superconducting Puzzle With Applications In Medicine, Transport And Power Transmission

Researchers studying the magnetic behaviour of a cuprate superconductor may have explained some of the unusual properties of their conduction electrons.

Social Bees Travel Greater Distances For Food Than Their Solitary Counterparts, Study Finds

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol.

Pocket Feature Shared By Deadly Coronaviruses Could Lead To Pan-Coronavirus Antiviral Treatment

Scientists have discovered why some coronaviruses are more likely to cause severe disease, which has remained a mystery, until now.

Significant Gaps And Inequalities In The Provision Of Specialist Child Weight Management Services In England, Study Finds

Over three quarters of acute NHS trusts in England (77%) do not have a child weight management service, despite being responsible for providing specialist services for the most severely obese,

Fossil Discovery In Storeroom Cupboard Shifts Origin Of Modern Lizards Back 35 Million Years

A specimen retrieved from a cupboard of the Natural History Museum in London has shown that modern lizards originated in the Late Triassic and not the Middle Jurassic as previously thought.

Scientists Invent Pioneering Technique To Construct Rare Molecules Discovered In Sediments From The Bahamas With Potential To Help Treat Disease And Infection

Scientists have created a much faster way to make certain complex molecules, which are widely used by pharmaceuticals for antibiotics and anti-fungal medicines.

Studies Find Omicron Related Hospitalisations Lower In Severity Than Delta And Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine Remains Effective In Preventing Hospitalisations

Adult hospitalisations from Omicron-related SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) were less severe than Delta and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine (also known as Comirnaty and BNT162b2*) remains effective in preventing not only hospitalisation, but severe patient outcomes associated with COVID-19, two new research studies have found.

Services Must Adopt Anti-Racist And Holistic Models Of Care To Reduce Ethnic Inequalities In Mental Healthcare

The experiences of people from ethnic minority groups with NHS mental healthcare are being seriously undermined by failures to consider the everyday realities of people's lives in services in the UK, reports a new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and Keele University.

Scientists Discover What Was On The Menu Of The First Dinosaurs

The earliest dinosaurs included carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous species, according to a team of University of Bristol palaeobiologists.

Child Body Weight Has Limited Effects On Mood And Behavioural Disorders, Study Suggests

Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders,

Scientists Detect Seismic Surface Waves on Planet Other Than Earth for First Time

Following two large meteorite impacts on Mars, researchers have observed, for the first time, seismic waves propagating along the surface of a planet other than Earth.

NASA Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars

NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake on Christmas Eve, 2021, but scientists learned only later from orbiter images the cause of that quake

Concern Over Unregulated High Street Health Checks That May Be Putting Extra Pressure on the NHS

An investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), highlights companies are offering private blood tests for a range of conditions and deficiencies, with some making misleading claims, not backed by evidence, and leaving an already overworked NHS to follow up “abnormal results".

Insects Affect Electric Fields in the Atmosphere, Researchers Find

The electric charge of insects can cause changes in the electricity of the atmosphere which are comparable with weather processes, researchers at the University of Bristol and University of Reading have found.

Bristol Researchers Make Important Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

Researchers from the University of Bristol, quantum start-up, Phasecraft and Google Quantum AI have revealed properties of electronic systems that could be used for the development of more efficient batteries and solar cells.

No Evidence That Dehorning Black Rhinos Negatively Impacts the Species’ Reproduction or Survival, Study Finds

There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth - breeding, birth, survival, life span and death - between dehorned or horned black rhinos new research, conducted by the University of Bristol Vet School, Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, and Save the Rhino Trust has found.

Risk of Blood Clots Remains for Almost a Year After Covid-19 Infection, Study Suggests

COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of 48 million unvaccinated adults from the first wave of the pandemic.

Scientists Harness Artificial Intelligence to Advance Ability to Measure Arctic Sea Ice and Improve Climate Forecasting

Pioneering research deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and satellite modelling means the thickness of Arctic sea ice can be measured all year round for the first time, bringing significant benefits for future weather forecasts and shipping in the region.

Pioneering Research Using Bacteria Brings Scientists a Step Closer to Creating Artificial Cells with Lifelike Functionality

Scientists have harnessed the potential of bacteria to help build advanced synthetic cells which mimic real life functionality.