Science news articles about 'university of sussex'

  • New University of Sussex research lab a hive of industry

    Good news for the hardworking honeybee and for beekeepers - the University of Sussex has installed the UK's only Professor of Apiculture. Professor Francis Ratnieks will head the newly-created ...
  • New research shows consistency in synaesthetic experiences

    ... psychologists Julia Simner, of the University of Edinburgh and Jamie Ward of the University of Sussex have found that synesthetes share certain grapheme-color combinations (for example, the letter ‘a’ ...
  • How buckyballs hurt cells

    ... in 1985, leading to the Nobel Prize in physics for researchers from the University of Sussex and Rice University who named the round, hollow molecules Buckminsterfullerene after renowned American ...
  • EuroDYNA takes lid off the genome

    ... mechanisms are only now being elicited. At the EuroDYNA conference, Simone Sabbioneda from the University of Sussex presented new findings about one of the key PRR mechanisms called Translesion DNA ...
  • Why musicians make us weep and computers don't

    ... savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. Neuroscientists ...
  • Diversity in primary schools promotes harmony

    ... peer problems and less prejudice than those attending schools that are more homogeneous. Researchers from the Universities of Sussex and Kent interviewed children from ethnic minority groups about ...
  • Research shows a link between alcoholism and memory

    (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Sussex leading expert on the psychological effects of drinking told an audience at the BA Festival of Science this week that the effect alcohol has on memory could ...
  • Gorilla study gives clues to human language development

    (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Sussex study provides evidence that gorilla communication is linked to the left hemisphere of the brain - just as it is in humans.
  • Psychologists reveal the secret of successful wooing

    (PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Sussex study shows that,without being consciously aware, we change our judgment of a person's attractiveness based on what they do, not their physical ...
  • Global poverty is still a priority

    ... , Leader of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Dr McGregor will also outline the potential outcomes of a failure by the ...
  • Research shows why you should believe your eyes

    ... s eyes can show that they've seen something before, even when they're pretending they haven't, research by University of Sussex doctoral student Becky Heaver reveals.
  • Dance of honeybee holds key to survival

    ... the UK has declined by nearly 75% in the past century, from about a million to 280,000. The University of Sussex academic believes that one major cause is changes in land use, which have reduced the ...
  • New insight into addictive behavior offers treatment hope

    ... by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Researchers from the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge and Nottingham have found that although attention to visual cues related ...
  • House cats know what they want and how to get it from you

    ... with contentment is quite a subtle means of eliciting a response," said Karen McComb of the University of Sussex. "Solicitation purring is probably more acceptable to humans than overt meowing, which ...
  • Have we got mews for you: cats exploit human need to nurture

    ... feel driven to respond. Dr Karen McComb, a specialist in mammal vocal communication at the University of Sussex, said that by employing an embedded cry, cats appear to be exploiting innate tendencies ...

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