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This Far-Off Galaxy Is Probably Shooting Us With Oodles Of Ghostly Particles

Deep under the South Pole sits an icebound forest of wiring called IceCube. It’s no cube: IceCube is a hexagonal formation of kilometer-deep holes in the ice, drilled with hot water and filled with electronics. Its purpose is to pick up flickers of neutrinos—ghostly little particles that often come from space and phase through Earth with hardly a trace.

Inequities in Access to Bereavement Support in the Uk Persists, New Research Finds

New research has shown there continues to be inequities in access to bereavement support in the UK.

A Day In The Life Used To Be 17 Hours

The Moon was a lot closer to Earth 2.46 billion years ago, and the shorter distance contributed to shorter days.

New International Study Concludes Digital Media Can Fuel Polarisation and Populism

The question whether the rise in usage of digital media is contributing to the erosion of democracy is a source of popular debate, with tech companies arguing findings are inconclusive.

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.

These Powerful Solar Panels Are As Thin As A Human Hair

The panels generate 18 times more power-per-kilogram than traditional solar technology.

New Trial to Assess Whether Rapid Tests Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Infections in Primary Care

A new randomised controlled clinical trial, led by the University of Bristol, will investigate whether rapid microbiological 'point-of-care' tests for respiratory infections could reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care, thanks to funding of £1.6 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

Physicists Say They Made a Mini-Wormhole in the Quantum Realm

Pesky quantum behaviors are getting us closer to figuring out quantum gravity.

This MIT Solar Technology Can Turn Any Surface Into A Power Source

The multi-use solar cells are thinner than a human hair.

Online Or In-Store? A Guide To Climate-Friendly Clothes Shopping.

Ways to curb your environmental impact, regardless of how you shop

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.

From Scientific Exile To Gene Editing Pioneer

Gene editing was a new idea in the mid-1970s.

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, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

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. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded study is published in PLOS Medicine today [13 December].

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.

Tufts researchers propose new paradigm for cellular pathways

With broad implications for drug development and the treatment of disease, a team of researchers at Tufts University in Massachusetts is developing a new paradigm for understanding biochemical and bioelectrical action at the sub-cellular level.