Author: Trebuchet News

Some of the news that we find inspiring, diverting, wrong or so very right.

Technoboffins Rejoice! Phone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors

29/03/2016

Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light...

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How to Make Friends, Influence People, and Get Given Fish: Antarctic Birds Learn to Recognize Humans

28/03/2016

How brown skuas, which evolved and lived in human-free habitats, recognized individual humans just after 3 or 4 visits...

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Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

27/03/2016

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

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The Wince Test. How to Tell if You Suffer From Empathic Pain

26/03/2016

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components...

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Too Much, Too Soon. How High Intensity Training Could Hurt You

25/03/2016

Warning: High-intensity training could hurt you if you're not an athlete ...

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Peaty Pinots and Gamay in the Gloaming. Global Warming Moves Wine Regions North

24/03/2016

Global warming pushes wines into uncharted terroir ...

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Useless Old Holiday Photos? Not quite. Tourist Snaps Show a Rise in Seabirds

23/03/2016

Old tourist photos show a rise in seabirds over the last century ...

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Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

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A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

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Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

18/03/2016

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

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The Cutpurse Code. Hidden Messages in England’s Oldest Printed Bible

17/03/2016

Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England's oldest printed bible ...

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How Much for a Booty Call?! The Danger of Sentimental Purchases

16/03/2016

Beware the dewy-eyed late-night online shopping session. Love trumps budget in sentimental buys....

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Come to the Dark Side with Turnable Windows

15/03/2016

Inspired by frozen ponds, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League powerhouse to address the always-vexing problem of window light...

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The Other Kind of Twitterstorm. Using Social Media for Natural Disaster Assessment

14/03/2016

Could social networks used in the assessment of damage caused by natural disasters?...

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A Lesson in Hubris? Using Statistics to Predict Extreme Waves

13/03/2016

Crunching the stats to predict ship-crunching ocean events...

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No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

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What Colour is Your Ark? Global Warming Makes the Wet Wetter, and the Dry Wetter Too

11/03/2016

With global warming, not only do the wet places get wetter, but the driest areas get wetter too...

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Feeling Flush? How Collecting Rainwater Could Save You Cash

10/03/2016

Drexel research looks at feasibility of rainwater recycling in 4 major US cities...

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Do You Feel Lucky? Overconfidence and Intelligence – The Link

09/03/2016

Those who think intelligence is fixed have confidence exceeding their ability...

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How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide

08/03/2016

New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support ...

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Here Be Treasure! Newly-Discovered Anglo Saxon Island

07/03/2016

Ornate writing tools discovered in a ploughed field lead archaeologists to entire island community...

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Can You Remember These Effects of Long Term Stress?

06/03/2016

Long-term stress erodes memory. Study in mice places blame on immune system...

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Is This Thing On? Scientists Propose New Method for Finding Extraterrestrial Life

05/03/2016

Researchers suggest a way of searching for weak signals from beyond Earth...

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What Can I Take to Help Me Lose Weight? Oh, That!

04/03/2016

Drinking more water associated with numerous dietary benefits, study finds ...

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Chill, Dude! Or Maybe Not. Cannabis Users Have Difficulty Processing Emotions

03/03/2016

Colorado State University study points to cannabis' muddling effect on emotion processing ...

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We Can Teach You That Wholesale – Learning By Transcranial Stimulation

01/03/2016

Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns ...

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Screw Your Noisy Drone, We’ve Got Electric Bubbles! MIT Make Ultra Lightweight Solar Cell

29/02/2016

MIT develop thinnest and lightest solar cells ever ...

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Will Driverless Cars Mean More Congestion?

28/02/2016

Driverless cars could increase reliance on roads ...

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Was Medieval France (even partly) Islamic? New Evidence Suggests So

27/02/2016

Evidence of likely early medieval Muslim graves found in France ...

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Keep Those Leg-Hinges Smooth and Silky with Knee Botox

24/02/2016

Researchers use Botox-like injection to treat runners and cyclists with knee pain ...

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