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The terrifying rise of the Gothic

By Guest PostDecember 29, 2014Cultureautonome systeme, axel janke, bildungsniveau, brainLinks, braintools, elizabeth kellogg, frias, giraffen population, gute schule, julian fennessy, music, neurological diseases, oxford university press, sven winter, tau microtubule, university of exeter

To mark the 250th anniversary of the earliest Gothic novel, first published on Christmas Eve 1764 as a seasonal ghost story, a new edition of The Castle of Otranto introduced by a University of Exeter academic is now available.

Author Horace Walpole described his literary work as a “Gothic story”, yet for him the Gothic meant very different things from what it might do today. While the Gothic was associated with the supernatural, it was predominantly a theory of English progress rooted in Anglo Saxon and medieval history. (more…)

You can hear the coral reefs dying

By Guest PostDecember 7, 2014Environmentcoral reefs, george otoole, kuenstlicher intelligenz, maschinelles lernen, ramin golestanian, steve simpson, underwater microphones, university of exeter

You can hear the sound of former bustling coral reefs dying due to the impact of human activity, according to new research from the Universities of Exeter and Essex.

Coral reefs are amongst the noisiest environments on our planet and healthy reefs can be heard using underwater microphones from kilometres away. (more…)

New research examines shellfish consumption

By Guest PostNovember 26, 2014Sciencecrabs, cybersecurity behavior, energy-efficient, john darcy, lobsters, longitudinal survey, moods, mussels, new research, oysters, paul benjamin lowry, scallops, uk, university of exeter, workplace computing behavior

A pioneering Cornish research partnership is providing invaluable information to the UK’s shellfish industry by improving understanding of what seafood people choose to eat and why.

University of Exeter Medical School PhD student, Nick Boase, is conducting surveys across the country to shed light on what people understand about shellfish, and uncover reasons why they might shy away from consuming produce grown in the UK. (more…)

Study reveals startling decline in European birds

By Guest PostNovember 13, 2014Naturecarol mansfield, cyber valley, darian mangu, estrogen treatment, Europe, house sparrows, orv restrictions, rhonda voskuhl, richard inger, roger von haefen, starlings, steven dundas, study, university of exeter, wildlife

Bird populations across Europe have experienced sharp declines over the past 30 years, with the majority of losses from the most common species, say researchers from the University of Exeter, the RSPB and the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in a new study. However numbers of some less common birds have risen.

The study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals a decrease of 421 million individual birds over 30 years. Around 90 percent of these losses were from the 36 most common and widespread species, including house sparrows, skylarks, grey partridges and starlings, highlighting the need for greater efforts to halt the continent-wide declines of our most familiar countryside birds. (more…)

Researchers solve riddle of the rock pools – Study shows rock gobies use rapid colour change camouflage to hide from predators

By Guest PostOctober 25, 2014Nature3d papillae, alzheimer forschung, Britain, camouflaging material, chromatophores, falmouth, from playboy, hirnaktivitaet, james pikul, north africa, researchers, rob shepherd, roger hanlon, southern europe, university of exeter

Research from the University of Exeter has revealed that the rock goby (Gobius paganellus), an unassuming little fish commonly found in rock pools around Britain, southern Europe, and North Africa, is a master of camouflage and can rapidly change colour to conceal itself against its background.

Whether hiding from predators or from families hunting in rock pools, the rock goby can change both its colour and brightness to match its background in just one minute. (more…)

Heritage of Earth’s water gives rise to hopes of life on other planets

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2014Scienceearth, erforschen, evolution of life, exoplanetary systems, exoplanets, Galaxy, gehirnaktivitaet, ilsedore cleeves, magnetfelder im gehirn, momoko watanabe, schlaganfall, stars, university of exeter, university of michigan, water, zika infected organoids

A pioneering new study has shown that water found on Earth predates the formation of the sun – raising hopes that life could exist on exoplanets, the planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy.

The ground-breaking research set out to discover the origin of the water that was deposited on the Earth as it formed.

It found that a significant fraction of water found on Earth, and across our solar system, predates the formation of the sun. By showing that water is ‘inherited’ from the environment when a star is born, the international team of scientists believe other exoplanetary systems also had access to an abundance of water during their own formation. (more…)

Study shows sharks have personalities

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2014Nature, Sciencealison crowe, atlantic, darren croft, elli theobald, group project, group work, kristin bergauer, mediterranean, metaproteomics, personality traits, proteinshake, seafloor, tiefsee mikroorganism, university of exeter, working with friends

Some sharks are ‘gregarious’ and have strong social connections, whilst others are more solitary and prefer to remain inconspicuous, according to a new study which is the first to show that the notorious predators have personality traits.

Personalities are known to exist in many animals, but are usually defined by individual characteristics such as how exploratory, bold or aggressive an individual is. (more…)

Skin colouring of rhesus macaque monkeys linked to breeding success

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2014Natureadvent of cryptocurrency, dana manalang, dinner in dark, garrick hileman, jerry paros, marine faults, potential mates, predict, pressure sensor, sexual selection, southeast asia, university of exeter, wechselspiel der mikroorganismen

Skin colour displayed amongst one species of monkey provides a key indicator of how successfully they will breed, a new study has shown.

The collaborative international research also shows that skin colouration in male and female rhesus macaques is an inherited quality – the first example of heritability for a sexually-selected trait to be described in any mammal. (more…)

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