The UK government should extend its sugar tax beyond soft drinks to cover all types of foods, according to a major new report published today (Monday, 17 March).
The Transforming UK Food Systems Programme (TUKFS) report, entitled “Regulatory…
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Alexa is about to send everything you tell it to Amazon
Amazon’s Alexa+ service is rolling out on March 28, and with it supposedly comes a more personalized, intuitive, and powerful digital assistant thanks to its underlying generative AI technology. But for the new features to work, the…
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Researchers propose new hypothesis for the origin of stone tools
Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and kick-starting a technological trajectory that continues…
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Direct evidence revealed for rare pulsing pear-shapes in Gadolinium nuclei
For the first time, scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new research led by the University of Surrey, the National Physical…
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From order to chaos: Understanding the principles behind collective motion in bacteria
Researchers from Science Tokyo have discovered that bacterial swarms transition from stable vortices to chaotic turbulence through distinct intermediate states. Combining experiments with bacterial swarms, computer simulations, and mathematical…
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Stock market performance enhanced through integrated reporting
Companies can significantly enhance their stock market performance by adopting Integrated Reporting (IR) and Combined Assurance (CA) practices, according to new research from Murdoch University.
The research underscores the importance of…
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RNA origami: Artificial cytoskeletons to build synthetic cells
With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural RNA biomolecule to fold new building blocks,…
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The ‘frontiers’ of Southeast Iberian Bronze Age communities identified
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian…
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Attention can be used to drive cooperation
Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling.
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Birmingham jointly with the University…
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Illusion of ‘dazzle’ paint on World War I battleships
A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of ‘dazzle’ camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr Samantha Strong has found that while dazzle had some effect, the ‘horizon…
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