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Record old DNA found in Greenland

EU Times — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:13:30 +0000

For the first time, two million-year-old DNA has been identified, opening a completely new and previously unexplored chapter in the history of evolution. The researchers have found microscopic fragments of environmental DNA in sediments in northern Greenland. The research is now presented in the journal Nature. Using advanced techniques, the researchers discovered that the fragments […]

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Scientists discover new evidence of liquid water on Mars

EU Times — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:41:51 +0000

Scientists have found new evidence indicating there could be liquid water on Mars, which is a major breakthrough in the search for life there. The University of Cambridge-led study provided the first independent evidence that uses data aside from radar that there is liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of the Red Planet. […]

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Voice assistants Siri and Alexa creating RUDE, ANTISOCIAL children

EU Times — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:03:36 +0000

A researcher warned parents that voice assistants Siri and Alexa are creating rude and antisocial children. Dr. Anmol Arora of the University of Cambridge said children’s interactions with these voice assistant devices at a young age may be a critical factor as to how they will develop later on in life. He wrote in a […]

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Scorching Hot Exoplanet Makes Scientists Scratch Heads

EU Times — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:07:04 +0000

An international team of astronomers has managed to compile the first temperature map of 55 Cancri e, a rocky ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet thought to have twice the diameter of Earth, according to NASA. The first thermal map of the exoplanet 55 Cancri e has been compiled by researchers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope; the map reveals […]

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Foreign Genes Found in Human Genome

EU Times — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:57:00 +0000

The genome of humans and other complex animals contains essential “foreign” segments of genetic code, new study says. The research, which cast doubt on the theory that evolution is exclusively a process of selection through ancestry, was published on Friday in the journal Genome Biology. Initially, it was thought that complex animals’ genes were solely […]

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Capitalist forces could create 'uncontrollable' Artificial Intelligence

EU Times — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:53:31 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) needs to develop human emotion if humanity is to avoid the potential existential threat posed by machines capable of consciousness, a leading scientist has warned. Computers that are “human-like” will be capable of empathy and moral reasoning, therefore reducing the risk of AI turning against humanity, he said. Murray Shanahan, professor of […]

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Physical inactivity twice deadlier than obesity, study shows

EU Times — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:13:10 +0000

A new major study says exercise is beneficial for people of any age, warning that physical inactivity could kill twice as many people as obesity. A 12-year study of more than 300,000 European people, who had an average age of around 50, suggests that about 676,000 deaths each year were attributed to physical inactivity, compared […]

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Breastfeeding halves mom depression risk

EU Times — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:56:14 +0000

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have suggested the women who experience breastfeeding to their baby could benefit lower risk of post-natal depression. The study of nearly 1400 mothers indicated that among those ones who started to breastfeed their kids there was a 50% reduction in the risk of postpartum depression. Breastfeeding can help to […]

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Deforestation severely affecting fish, new UK-Canadian study

EU Times — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:37:48 +0000

New research shows that deforestation imposes crisis in amount of available food for freshwater fish, resulting reduction in their size and consequently their population. The team of scientists from Canada and the UK found that where there was less forest cover or even no trees, the fish were undersized as well as with health problems. […]

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Billion-pixel Gaia telescope takes its first picture

EU Times — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:01:45 +0000

Europe’s billion-star surveyor Gaia is slowly being brought into focus as it begins its mission to create the most accurate map of the Milky Way begins. Launched in December, the satellite has now reached its destination 1.5 million km from Earth. Engineers are currently commissioning Gaia’s two telescopes and its three instruments, getting them ready […]

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British women converting to Islam at an alarming rate

EU Times — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:07:59 +0000

The University of Cambridge has published a report about experiences of almost 50 British women of all backgrounds, ethnicities, ages and faiths (or no faith), who have all converted to Islam. The report was commissioned and produced by the University’s Centre of Islamic Studies (CIS), in association with the New Muslims Project, Markfield. The 129-page […]

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Famed physicist Stephen Hawking joins Israel boycott

EU Times — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:21:29 +0000

World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has found himself in the midst of a media-fueled misunderstanding over his recent decision to boycott an international conference hosted by Israel in protest of that country’s treatment of Palestinians. Professor Hawking’s announcement that he has declined an invitation to headline the fifth annual Presidential Conference, hosted by Israeli President […]

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Liver Transplants to be replaced by Cells that correct Genetic Mutation

EU Times — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:27:49 +0000

British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants. A team of researchers led by the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge used cutting-edge methods to correct a genetic mutation in stem cells derived from a patient’s […]

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