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Rice basket study rethinks roots of human culture

By Guest PostDecember 5, 2015Culture, Sciencealex thornton, cultural chasm, elena zwirner, human culture, rice basket, roots, study, university of exeter

A new study from the University of Exeter has found that teaching is not essential for people to learn to make effective tools.

The results counter established views about how human tools and technologies come to improve from generation to generation and point to an explanation for the extraordinary success of humans as a species. The study reveals that although teaching is useful, it is not essential for cultural progress because people can use reasoning and reverse engineering of existing items to work out how to make tools. (more…)

Sleep makes our memories more accessible, study shows

By Guest PostOctober 5, 2015Healthbiotechnology company, boost, induced systemic resistance, make, memories, movement behavior, salamander populations decline, sleep, terrestrial salamander, university of exeter, wild house mice

Sleeping not only protects memories from being forgotten, it also makes them easier to access, according to new research from the University of Exeter and the Basque Centre for Cognition, Brain and Language. (more…)

Selfishness lasts a lifetime, according to mongoose study

By Guest PostAugust 7, 2015Naturealessio medda, antimatter in universe, barbara fischer, becken, beckenfossilien menschlicher vorfahren, cracked tooth, damaged filling, decayed teeth, dental procedure, geschlechtsunterschiede, infected teeth, menschliche becken, selfishness, tooth discoloration, uganda, university of exeter

Researchers studying wild banded mongooses in Uganda have discovered that these small mammals have either cooperative or selfish personalities which last for their entire lifetime. The findings of the 15-year study are published in the journal Animal Behaviour. (more…)

Wild mongooses avoid inbreeding with unusual reproductive strategy

By Guest PostJune 21, 2015Nature, Sciencealessio medda, antimatter in universe, double beta decay, improving military training, inbreeding, military training sites, neutrinoless, omer inan, project sharpi, reina maruyama, university of exeter, virtual coach

Researchers studying banded mongooses in Uganda have discovered that these small mammals are able to discriminate between relatives and non-relatives to avoid inbreeding even when mating within their own social group. (more…)

Research shows alternating antibiotics could make resistant bacteria beatable

By Guest PostApril 21, 2015Healthairband initiative, antibiotic resistant bacteria, haptic smart watch, pilz als untermieter, tataren aster, university of exeter, wireless internet

Pioneering new research has unlocked a new technique to help combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, that cause debilitating and often life-threatening human illness.

Researchers from the University of Exeter has shown that the use of ‘sequential treatments’ – using alternating doses of antibiotics – might offer effective treatment against bacterial infection. (more…)

Love, love me do: male beetles that have more sex are more insecure, study shows

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2015Naturealternative methods, alternative therapies, alternative treatments, emma kast, entstehung von stroemungen, evolution, global climate studies, heat pump, indus becken projekt, inge de graaf, john higgins, love, megan head, more sex, music therapy, ocean nitrogen, sinkende grundwasserspiegel, treatments for addiction, university of exeter

Males that mate more often are more insecure about their social status than those mating less, according to new research on the behaviour of burying beetles.

The study, published in the journal Evolution, provides new evidence that the social sensitivity of male behaviour is linked to how often male beetles mate. (more…)

Skeletons uncovered at Ipplepen reveals major Roman cemetery

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2015Sciencedanielle wootton, devon, eve ewing, ironheart, marvel comic, peggy myung, roman cemetery, roman empire, sam moorhead, south side teen, university of exeter

15 ancient skeletons have been discovered on an archaeological dig in Ipplepen, a major Romano-British settlement in Devon and now the best preserved Roman cemetery. University of Exeter archaeologists and a team of students and volunteers uncovered the human remains during an excavation of a Roman Road and found a roadside cemetery, the like of which has never been seen in the region.

The significance of the discovery took on further importance when one of the skeletons was found to date from around 250 to 350 years after the Roman period, an era often referred to as the ‘dark ages’. These discoveries are of both national and regional value in providing a glimpse into Romano-British life and how the settlement continued into post-Roman times. (more…)

Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing asteroid

By Guest PostJanuary 24, 2015Scienceancient pigment, eco friendly vehicle, egyptian blue, extinction of dinosaurs, extinction of species, global firestorm, hydrogen fuel cell, lance gande, life, mass extinction, million years ago, theory, university of exeter

Pioneering new research has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is thought to have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused vast global firestorms that ravaged planet Earth.

A team of researchers from the University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London recreated the immense energy released from an extra-terrestrial collision with Earth that occurred around the time that dinosaurs became extinct. They found that the intense but short-lived heat near the impact site could not have ignited live plants, challenging the idea that the impact led to global firestorms. (more…)

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