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A Brave New World of Sugar and Caffeine

08/11/2012

Sugar mouthwash makes you more motivated, caffeine improves your cognitive function, and fermented-sugar ethanol will convert the schoolrun into an environmentally friendly activity, wafting the...

Mitch Lucker Memorial Fund

07/11/2012

The total amount of the collected money will go straight to the educational fund of Lucker's five-year-old daughter, Kenadee....

Better Beats

06/11/2012

Cleared samples, loops, breaks and beats. Tons of them. Played by a master, Keith LeBlanc. One single dollar charge....

Drunken Tweets Not Confined to Humans

05/11/2012

'all the dead birds had become intoxicated on fermented berries, and that some of the injuries they had sustained were the result of mid-air collisions'. Drunken Birds....

Sneaky Copulation for shy Macaques

04/11/2012

'both males and females can harass copulating partners' Rude monkeys have to resort to 'sneaky copulation' to avoid being interrupted....

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012

02/11/2012

RIP: Mitch Lucker 1984-2012 - Trebuchet remembers...

Timbre! Another Sense Falls to the Machines

02/11/2012

Timbre is a hard-to-quantify concept loosely defined as everything in music that isn't duration, loudness or pitch. Now machines can detect it....

Mean Sweets: Children only generous when observed

01/11/2012

The child's equivalent of chucking a rusty old washer into a collection box, children are apt to be more generous when they know their actions are being observed....

Sandy: Satellite View

31/10/2012

A satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the US coast...

Hanging Offence: Little Black Gallery

30/10/2012

'The UK is far behind the USA and France in the photography market and needs to catch up.' ...

Beyond Space and Time: New Physics

29/10/2012

"Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,"...

Gun restrictions save lives

28/10/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn a dramatic denouement of the inpenetrable mysteries of the bleedin’ obvious, US researchers figure out that restricting...

Robots as Careworkers

27/10/2012

Adults said they are willing to use a robot for reminders to take medicine, but they are more comfortable if a person helps them decide which medication to take. ...

Size Doesn’t Matter (Shape Does)

26/10/2012

'the sexual organs change most rapidly of all morphological features during evolution', the wonders of science bring us new research on the sexual organs of beetles. Hooray!...

Hanging Offence: Wapping Project Bankside

25/10/2012

It is not an annex of The Wapping Project, it is a separate entity informed by all of the wild things I have done over the years at The Wapping Project....

Gaga in Green: Scientists name fern genus after the singer

24/10/2012

'At one stage of its life, the new genus Gaga has somewhat fluid definitions of gender and bears a striking resemblance to one of Gaga's famous costumes.' So they named the fern GAGA...

Deftones UK Tour

24/10/2012

The Deftones have nothing left to prove. They have 'the rock' and now they want to share it with you....

Hanging Offence: Heartbeat Gallery

23/10/2012

A successful and well-established commercial space that is known for it’s unpretentious, welcoming environment that evokes familiarity within visitors and erases any notions of elitism commonly...

Spinefarm Need Street Team!

21/10/2012

Spinefarm records are looking for street team footsoldiers. Armed with wallpaper paste and a sheaf of flyers, it's the way into the music business that doesn't involve bassplayers sleeping on your...

Cretaceous Acoustics Comeback

20/10/2012

Global warming appears to be leading us back to the similar ocean acoustic conditions as those that existed 110 million years ago...

Knife-Fighting Frogs!

19/10/2012

Combat-ready spikes which shoot from fingers sounds like the weaponry of a comic book hero, but a Japanese scientist has found exactly this in a rare breed of frog....

Dropkick Murphys Announce Album/Tour

18/10/2012

Dropkick Murphys whittle their shillelaghs, sup the cream off the top of a few wee pints o' the black stuff and get set for an album launch and Euro tour starting in, where else? Dublin!...

Worst Sounds Top 10

15/10/2012

"It appears there is something very primitive kicking in,", how we react to unpleasant sounds....

Call For Artists: UNHINGED

14/10/2012

All artists involved will be featured on our website and be promoted as part of the Unhinged Collective (if they would like to)....

Graphene iPad Possible

13/10/2012

a 'Graphene Roadmap' which for the first time sets out what the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material can truly achieve...

Diamond Planet Discovered

12/10/2012

The study estimates that at least a third of the planet's mass — the equivalent of about three Earth masses — could be diamond....

Hanging Offence: Transition Gallery

12/10/2012

'We are always looking for new ideas and artists to show. There is no point in us doing what the big galleries do'. Transition Gallery's Cathy Lomax talks to Trebuchet ...