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A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia "“ a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade.Examining the brains of 872 people who had been part of three large ageing studies, and who before their deaths had completed questionnaires about their education, the researchers found that more education makes people better able to cope with changes in the brain associated with...
Earth could be as much as 70 million years younger than scientists originally believed, according to a new study which claims that it could have taken the planet 100 million years to reach its current size instead of the widely believed 30 million years.Dr. John Rudge, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College, along with an international team of experts, compared geochemical information originally found in the Earth's mantle and compared it to the same material from...
Scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Cambridge have developed machine-learning codes modeled on the human brain that can be used to classify galaxies accurately and efficiently. Remarkably, the new method is so reliable that it agrees with human classifications more than 90% of the time. The research will appear in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.There are billions of galaxies in the Universe, containing anything between...
Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colors found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The findings could have important applications in the security printing industry, helping to make bank notes and credit cards harder to forge.The striking iridescent colors displayed on beetles, butterflies and other insects have long fascinated both physicists and biologists, but mimicking nature's most colorful, eye-catching surfaces has proved elusive.This is...
Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age.The results provide the first concrete evidence that carbon dioxide (CO2) was more efficiently locked away in the deep ocean during the last ice age, turning the deep sea into a more 'stagnant' carbon repository "“ something scientists have long suspected but lacked data to support.Working on a marine sediment core recovered from the Southern...
Scientists reported that swarming locusts not only look different and act differently to solitary locusts; they also have much larger brains. Scientists at the University of Cambridge captured images of the results of dramatic changes inside the insects' heads. The team said the same locust could switch between a "solitary" and swarming phase. They reported their findings in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. "Normally locusts would avoid close contact with each other,"...
Rice bioengineers define relationship between key regulatory proteinsWith thousands of scientists across the globe searching for ways to use adult stem cells to fight disease, there's a growing emphasis on finding the "master regulators" that guide the differentiation of stem cells. New research from Rice University and the University of Cambridge suggests that a closely connected trio of regulatory proteins fulfills that role in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), the self-renewing...
A study conducted at the University of Granada and the University of Cambridge reveals that police officers and criminals are more consistent in their judgments than ordinary people. However, police officers' reasoning is more similar to that of ordinary people than to that of thieves. This conclusion might have significant implications on criminal jurisdiction. For the purpose of this study, a 120-people sample was taken. The sample consisted of 40 expert criminals, 40 expert policemen and...
Scientists have uncovered a hip bone believed to belong to an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in Australia, providing the first evidence that the fearsome carnivore may have lived in the southern hemisphere, according to a Thursday University of Cambridge press release.The 30 centimeter long bone was discovered in Dinosaur Cove in Victoria by a team of researchers that included Dr. Roger Benson from the University of Cambridge's Department of Earth Science, Dr. Paul Barrett from the Natural...
LONDON, March 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oxbridge Research Group (TORG), http://www.torg.co.uk, today announced the launch of a new company, Oxbridge Commercial Editing, http://www.oxbridgecommercialediting.com, the sector's first to offer bespoke editing and proofing for UK and overseas business, institutions and organisations from solely Oxford and Cambridge University graduates. The only UK-based comprehensive editing company to contract a team of over 40 experienced Oxbridge...
