Author: Trebuchet News

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

Quakes or cancer : Which Fracking Death Would YOU Prefer?

'there are a lot of potential ways that fracking may be distributing and spreading radon'...

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Too scared to sleep? Nightmares and insomnia – the link

Depression and insomnia are strongest risk factors for frequent nightmares ...

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Hubble looks into the galactic past

Eight unusual looped structures orbit their host galaxies and glow in a bright and eerie goblin-green hue...

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How cigarette smoking superbugs get even more super

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapicotine-addled MRSA superbugs get even badder-assed when they are exposed to cigarette smoke. It figures. Work starts on the...

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Official: Smartphones Make You Stupid(er)

The cognitive effects of 'being in search mode' on the Internet may be so powerful that people still feel smarter even when their online searches reveal nothing...

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Which Way does the Leaf Go? Drawing Apple Logos

People's memory, even for extremely common objects, is much poorer than they believe it to be....

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Music, motor function, learning and memory

Playing music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission, motor function, learning and memory....

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Giving Drones Morphable Wings

This finding will greatly help make flapping winged drones much more robust....

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Dating by Faith – Why?

People's decision to partner with religious or non-religious individuals can be determined by personality traits that religiosity is believed--rightly or wrongly--to predict...

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Opting out of the attention economy.

Firms will realize substantially greater success if they use moderately energetic commercials rather than highly energetic ones...

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Defining ‘Natural’. Why ALL food additives need standards.

After decades of debate there remains no generally accepted definition of a "natural" food product....

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Fallow and Flower, For Feeding the Bees

Flower strips sown into farmers' fields not only attract bees but increase their numbers...

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Opossum in your Snakebite, Sir?

The antivenom would probably work against venoms from poisonous snakes, as well as against scorpion, plant and bacterial toxins...

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Natural Nettles Give Cancer the Sting.

A highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells...

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Two before bedtime? The Sensitivity Pill

Under tolcapone's influence, game players were more sensitive to and less tolerant of social inequity...

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All about that Vertebral Wedging

Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass...

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At it like rabbits? Kids, Vids and Sex

As the portrayal of women as objects of lust reflects patriarchal values, media images that support this type of male dominance may provoke resistance in female viewers....

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Bicarbo-load for Better Vision

By opposing the effect of light, bicarbonate limits the size of the photon response and quickens its recovery...

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Schizophrenic? Check your fingers, chaps.

Asymmetry has a potential utility as a diagnostic test in determining the presence of schizophrenia...

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Shifty Eyes. Influencing Moral Decisions By Tracking the Gaze

Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking moment to moment movements of the eyes during deliberation...

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Tilting trees for better biofuel

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”Y/dropcapou’re gonna BURN, you beech! Take 2: You’re gonna Burn, you birch! Why the willow wept…. Imperial researchers...

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Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

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Live longer by spending less time alone.

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”U/dropcaprr hur hurr. That’s a scientific euphemism, that is. ‘Spend less time alone’. They mean ‘shagging’,...

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Being laid off causes distrust for at least nine years

Job losses of the recent recession could lead to a worrying level of long-term distrust...

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Breaking the Galactic Speed Record

The white dwarf is thought to have turned into a 'thermonuclear supernovae' and exploded...

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A world of new beers! Raise a glass to the Finns

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapelsinki. Lakes. Rally drivers. Awkward silences. Prolonged awkward silences. That’s all we knew about Finland. But now...

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Wipe Your Pants Down, this is gonna get sticky

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphink of the applications! A paint that makes the coated object self-cleaning. Pure sci-fi. Wonder if you slopped it onto a vinyl if...

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Yes dear, have another biscuit. Some of us have jogging to do..

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcap he healthgiving power of sanctimonious smuggery – having a fit partner can make you fitter too. Although it’s probably...

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Gimmie Some Space! Tracking Pedestrian Movement

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”D/dropcapid we need a research project measuring a general law of how pedestrians interact? Surely the simple law is : extremely slowly,...

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Avoiding the Zombie Apocalypse : Where to Hold Out

Zombie apocalypse. Yawn. Frankly, if the droning emo stumblemonkeys can detect brain activity on a turgid March Tuesday such as this one, they’ve earned it. Tuck in. A team of Cornell...

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